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This Contextualizing a Historical Photograph: Busing and the Anti-busing Movement in Boston lesson plan also includes:
- Contextualizing a Historical Photograph: Busing and the Anti-busing Movement in Boston (.html)
- Resource Sheet #1: What Happened and Why? (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #2: Louise Day Hicks, Icon of Tumult, Dies (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #3: What's Going On? (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #4: Judge Garrity Letters (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #5: Television Interviews Group 1 (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #6: Television Interviews Group 2 (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #7: Television Interviews Group 3 (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #8: Boston and Busing: A Museum Exhibit (.pdf)
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The anti-busing movement in Boston is the focus of a lesson that asks young historians to examine primary source documents to identify the causes and consequences of busing pupils from one area of the city to another in the attempt to integrate Boston schools from the 1960s through the 1990s.
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Instructional Ideas
- Instructors should read the Topic Background essay about the complicated attempts to desegregate United States' schools to determine how much information to share with pupils
Classroom Considerations
- The links provided in Resource Sheets #5-7 are no longer active; however, the image "Soiling of Old Glory" is available on the internet
- Presumes class members have experience analyzing primary sources
- One of six resources in the series
- A protocol must be in place to assure a safe, respectful discussion of the controversy
Pros
- Includes documents that present views from all sides of the very complex issue
- The step-by-step plan is carefully scaffolded
Cons
- Three of the five resource sheets are no longer available