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Saint Louis Public Schools, MO. – 1980
This guide provides St. Louis, Missouri, secondary school teachers with information about desegregation that would be useful to parents and students in that city. The guide contains instructional materials to be used by teachers to reduce anxieties caused by school desegregation. The background information on St. Louis desegregation includes: (1)…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Class Activities, Desegregation Litigation, Instructional Materials
Saint Louis Public Schools, MO. – 1980
This guide provides primary school teachers in St. Louis, Missouri, with information about the desegregation movement court ruling and plan implemented in that city. Activities designed to inform parents and students and help persons to adjust to new school locations are presented. Background information on St. Louis desegregation is provided,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Class Activities, Desegregation Litigation, Instructional Materials
Saint Louis Public Schools, MO. – 1980
This guide provides fourth and fifth grade teachers in St. Louis, Missouri, with information about desegregation that would be useful to parents and students in that city. Classroom activities designed to inform parents and students and help persons to adjust to new school locations are described. Background information on St. Louis desegregation…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Desegregation Litigation, Elementary Education, Grade 4
Saint Louis Public Schools, MO. – 1980
This guide provides middle school teachers in St. Louis, Missouri, with information about desegregation that would be useful to parents and students in that city. Classroom activities designed to inform parents and students and help persons to adjust to new school locations are presented. Background information provided includes: (1) an abridged,…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Desegregation Litigation, Instructional Materials, Intermediate Grades
Peer reviewedPage, Melvin; And Others – Update on Law-Related Education, 1991
Outlines class activities to help students understand how the U.S. Supreme Court reaches its decisions and how the decisions change over time. Includes objectives, resources, issues and questions, procedures, and evaluations. Suggests that students will learn the facts and issues of important civil rights cases and form opinions on the decisions.…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Class Activities, Constitutional History, Constitutional Law
Peer reviewedMonk, Linda R.; Sass, Charles R. – Update on Law-Related Education, 1991
Recommends studying Fannie Lou Hamer's work in the civil rights movement of the 1960s to teach students a greater appreciation of the citizen's role in enforcing constitutional rights. Includes a role-playing activity, discussion questions, and a handout on Hamer. Suggests students will recognize the relationship between the Fourteenth Amendment…
Descriptors: Activism, Biographies, Black History, Black Leadership
Fauver, Bill; Ruderman, Jim – 1991
This unit focuses on the school integration case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (Kansas), and its immediate aftermath. The Supreme Court's 1954 decision was a catalyst for civil rights activism along a broad front over the ensuing decades. The decision and its implementation have stood as a model for similar social and political action…
Descriptors: Black Education, Blacks, Constitutional History, Desegregation Litigation
Peer reviewedWilliams, Mary Louise – Update on Law-Related Education, 1991
Presents a lesson tracing the legal evolution toward greater justice in U.S. society from 1865-1965 through congressional acts and Supreme Court decisions. Includes student handouts of major civil rights cases, legislation, and background information. Provides a bar graph for evaluating Supreme Court decisions and congressional acts that advance…
Descriptors: Black History, Blacks, Citizenship Education, Civil Rights Legislation
