Hidden Realities: School Desegregation and the Law — Brown and Black Victories During the Civil Rights Era
Waltrina D. Kirkland-Mullins
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4. Conclusion
Hidden Realities: School Desegregation & The Law - Brown & Black Victories During the Civil Rights Era serves as an enlightening and empowering discovery resource for students. Through its implementation, children experience and embrace that the fight for equality in America was no easy task. They recognize that civil rights activists young and old helped pave the way for the many rights and privileges enjoyed by diverse populations within American society today. Young learners are moved by what is learned, analyzing, questioning, and challenging concepts of race prejudice and discrimination. By way of candid discussion and written responses rich in fact and supportive details, students demonstrate an understanding of subject matter. Our "future citizens" make use of newly-acquired vocabulary, further conveying their understanding of the topics at hand. Through the implementation of hands-on instruction, hands-on implementation, children gain a sense of American democracy and the role of government. They embrace the reality that laws can be just or unjust, that American citizens can and must play a role in helping make those laws equitable and beneficial to all Americans. Equally important, young learners make text-to-self-to-world connections: they begin to see themselves as future members of society who, like courageous civil rights activists of the past, may one day help make positive contributions that have a positive impact on diverse members of American society.
