By: Brooke Lehman - PowerPoint Presentation

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By:Brooke LehmanMikayla DeaneandAudri Marconi

First Days of School DesegregationSlide2

What was it like during the first days of school desegregation in Kentucky?Question:Slide3

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-segregation.htmlIn 1956, in Sturgis, Kentucky, ten black students attempted to attend the all white high school. Turned back by a jeering mob, they appealed to Governor A.B. Chandler who called out the National Guard. The Guard held back the crowd the next morning as nine black students entered the school foreshadowing what was to come in Little Rock just a year later. Other schools in Kentucky desegregated around this time as well and experienced varying levels of resistance. As a result, desegregation in Kentucky's schools took many years

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found at http://hsionline.org/cases.html or http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/ under School Desegregation.

About school segregationSlide4

White Teens Discriminating the other Colored students.Slide5

Segregation Images BelowSlide6

Document A: Photograph taken of protestors in Sturgis, Kentucky, 1956, Louisville Courier Journal.Document B:George L. Logan- On the campus of the University of Kentucky, a man named George L. Logan was being segregated in one of his college classes. It was September of 1951 and none

of the men or woman would take their seat due to him already sitting down. Logan felt very humiliated by all

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They took a little rope and put around the seat that I was sitting in and put a sign on it "For Colored Only”.Document C:Alice Wilson- In 1950, at Mayfield High School, (located in Mayfield, Kentucky) a boycott broke out. The white students would not go to their classes because they have had enough of the colored students. Alice Wilson thought that the moment she walked near the school, was

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after a while they found that nobody else was coming out there to say anything. They went into the building, that was the end of that day; and that incident was never repeated

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Documents a, b and cSlide7

Blaine Hudson: The first days of School desegregation were tense in Blaine’s case. He attended Atherton, located in Louisville, Kentucky. Blaine's relationship with one teacher wasn’t good. “And this was one of those teachers that you just sort of knew that me just being in the class was a problem for her; just body language, facial language, the whole thing” was what he retold about her.

Reverend David Pettie

: Unlike Hudson, Blaine didn’t attend a desegregated school, instead his daughter did. The fight for school desegregation was very eventful for him. He explained all of the crowds, and even the National Guard showing up

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James Howard: James was bullied at Sturgis. He recalled the unfair difference between the blacks and whites. “It wasn't just a case of my feeling that I was in physical danger: I was spit on, I had rock--ah, eggs thrown on me, tomatoes thrown on me, I was hit with rocks, I was kicked, I was pushed, I was shoved. So it wasn't just whether I felt that I was in danger, it was real. Clearly there were two sets of rules, ah, from the outset; there were one for black children; there was one for white children.”

Documents D, E and FSlide8

Lloyd Arnold: There was a man who fought for the rights of education for his daughters. The mans name was Lloyd Arnold. His daughter’s name was Geneva. Geneva went to Murry State College, a white college. She was his oldest daughter and was the 1st black student to attend the college. His other daughter went to Murry State High School.. The first days of school desegregation was a very hard time for Lloyd and both his daughters because they had to fight to get their educations.

Anne Butler

: In the first days of desegregation Anne Butler went to the school Stanford High. In the time of

segregation, the

struggles were hard but Anne stated that she felt no tension between people at all. Going to an all white school many people would expect her to be affected by the white people but it didn’t affect her. Documents G and HSlide9
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The voices recorded in the documents all generally felt threatened. The dangers of the boycotts and fights were quite serious.How did they feel?Slide11

Audri MarconiDocuments A, B and CBrooke LehmanDocuments D, E and FMikayla DeaneDocuments G and HCredits: