Now, Zeina's Social Studies Spectacular!

                              

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A nice greeting, right? But this blog, well isn't the nicest. Obviously, like everyone else, we are doing a topic on the Civil Rights Movement. According to my topic, I'm doing the fight for equal education. What's "equal education"? Well we all hopefully know that back then, black people we're treated differently from whites. Why? Who knows!

We get that now, but back then, it's hard to believe how bad they treated them! You name it, probably the worst way to treat anybody, they topped that! Just on black people! Did they start a fire? Did they kill people? Were they thieves? Of course not. They judged them on their skin color. Not on personality, or something. Well, at least a bunch of brave people came about, and now we treat people equaly. 

        Anyway..

       Let's go on to the subject:)

So Imagine your a Black kid. Well, your already a kid, so imagine your black, you lived back in the "old days", and you had to walk about 10 miles a day, just to go to your 1 room school-house. WHEN you finally are done with your 10 mile trip, you notice that the steps are crooked and damaged. It's hard to get up the steps because they're so wiggley and cracked, and when you make it up there, the door falls down before you get the chance to open it, and you realize there is a big hole in the roof. The roof of that tiny building-room that also has no windows, cracked and crushed  floors that you hear make uncomfortable sounds as you walk on them! 
                         
                                  
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There are at least about 100 black kids in your class, and guess how many teachers you have?  Only 1. Did I mention? The school is freezing! No heaters, no warm toasty fire place, nope, nothing! The kids had to physically go to the woods to collect some woods, chop it up, and throw it into the 


rusty-old stove. 
                     
                                 
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Luckily... Some brave, brave people fighted to stop that. Here's 2. 

• Mary McLeod Bethune (:

• Ruby Bridges (:

                                      
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                       Now.... 

    I'm gonna be talking a little bit about each of them. 

Enough for you to know that, they defiantly played a good part in the fight for equal education! (:





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Marry McLeod Bethune-

This Lady was very inspiring. She made more and more black schools, like in Florida, there were barely any, and she tried to make more. She defiantly changed the lives of a lot of African Americans. She took it soo far, she talked to Congress. She helped the lives of African Americans and helped them graduate through high school and college, and helped them have the right to vote! She was amazing, am I wrong? What a brave person. She was known for making black schools, and helping African American's lives in equal education.





That's Mary McLeod Bethune. 
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Ruby Bridges-


This lady had a very inspiring story.


Ruby was one of the first black kids ever to go to a all-white school(: She got in because she passed this tough test. Her dad didn't want her to be in an all white school, just because he didn't want her to be involved in the whole mixing white and blacks idea. While her mom on the other side wanted her to  go 100%. Why? 



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Her mom had a tough life learning and getting good education her whole life. All because she went to an all-black school. And remember how bad those are? They didn't teach half the education white schools had. All her mom wanted was her to get a good job and have a good life unlike her. At first, she had to sit in a different level, and a different room as the other white kids. But, soon enough, she graduated. She was S-M-A-R-T-. She had a great life, and later she got her own show due to her interesting yet inspiring life.



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     We're Done! Right? .... Wrong!

..... Nope! We have 2 small questions to go over about the field trip that we went to on Monday.

We went the Atlanta History Center, and we learned about Black History Month! Let's go over them!



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Of course.. Why else would I be talking about this? ANYWAY, These are the two questions:



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Q: What Did You Learn On The Field-trip?

A: Well, I learned a bunch. First, we watched a skit on this little white girl back where they still had slaves, And then went to a large room to learn about the Northern And Sothern Parts Splitting Up. 



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Which I didn't know anything about that before. After that, we had a "war", between The Union Solders (North) and The Confederates(South). I defiantly learned a bunch about the split they had and the war, and how the soldiers lived their everyday life. It was really.. interesting!



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Q: What Did You Like About The Museum?


A: Soo, About that white little girl, That was probably my favorite part of the whole field trip! It was a cool skit, It actually looked like it was happening back when there was actually slavery! Anyway, The skit is about that girl, she is the wife of a plantation owner. And if your wondering, a plantation is a place where slaves used to work...
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She liked one of her slaves, and, she found some paper with writing from that slave, and it was a law if a slave knew how to write, they would suffer terrible consequences! The white girl didn't want that to happen to her, and it was a very interesting skit. I also liked when we got papers, that had a solider, and information on them, and we had morale points, and health points. We went through different things and courses that the actual soldiers in the Confederate And Union Armies went through everyday. We got points deducted, and points added, due to what just happened. It was actually very interesting....


EXCEPT....  for the fact that my soldier ended up dying by getting bi-headed by a cannon ball! What a lovely way of dying(:


Well. That was my blog! This was Zeina's Social Studies Spectacular..:D



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