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The Civil Rights Movement: 3rd Grade Lesson Introduction

Think About It

Imagine you are on a bus going to play a basketball game with your team. On the bus there are both basketball players and football players traveling to their games. When you go to sit down in the front of the bus, a football player tells you that you have to go stand in the back because only football players are allowed to sit in the front of the bus and all the back rows are full.

What would your response be? Would you just do what he said?
Or would you argue that you should be allowed to take that seat since there are no more seats near your team in the back of the bus?

Taking a Stand

It seems unfair for an athlete to not be able to sit in any available seat on a bus going to their sporting event. During a time period in America following the Civil War, buses were segregated, there were separate sections for Black Americans and White Americans. Some people thought this was unfair, and one lady in particular decided to do something about it which sparked others to do the same.

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