Examples of Resistance Black History Month

Integrate-bring (people or groups with particular characteristics or needs) into equal participation in or membership of a social group or institution.

Multiple Choice

What does it mean to integrate the schools?

• School systems were required by law to maintain separate schools for minority students.

• School systems were required by federal government to combine all students into the same school system. Example; Black and Mexican students began atting the local all white schools.

Ruby Bridges was the first African American student to integrate a southern school. Ruby was 6 years old, entering Kindergarten in Louisiana.

This year's Black History Month theme is RESISTANCE.

Resistance is the refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument.

Multiple Choice

How is Ruby's experience an example of RESISTANCE?

• Her parents and Ruby resisted societal pressures to not attend new school.

• Her parents and Ruby caved to societal pressures to not integrate.