1. What are the benefits and consequences of questioning/challenging authority? 2. Provide an example of agency that you

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1. What are the benefits and consequences of
questioning/challenging authority?
2. Provide an example of agency that
you learned through this activity.
3. Read through all the headlines provided by your class peers,
and choose one that summarizes the struggle to desegregate schools
in Virginia.
Chose headline: VA SCHOOLS BEFORE BROWN V BOARD OF
EDUCATION
(1954): A photograph of the interior of a Rosenwald
School in Chesterfield County, Virginia, taken by
Jackson Davis, first agent for Negro Rural Schools for the Virginia
Department of Education.
Rosenwald Schools were built throughout the South through the
partnership of Booker T.
Washington’s Tuskegee Institute and Jewish
philanthropist Julius Rosenwald.
"I was unhappy with the school facility and its inadequacies …
it wasn't fair that we had such a poor facility, equipment, etc.,
when our white counterparts enjoyed science laboratories, a huge
facility, separate gym dept., etc."
Barbara Johns, who organized a 1951 student protest in Prince
Edward County that led to one of the five Brown v.
Board cases
Hear Joan Johns Cobbs, Barbara Johns’s sister, speak (at
29:00)
Excerpts
of remarks to the FCPS
School Board
From a “delegation of eleven representative colored citizens of the
county”(March 1948)
“Manassas is too far away from the majority of children in the
County. (It is estimated some children have to travel over 90 miles
by way of the circuitous route of buses).”
“For many years over 100 County children have been sent to
Washington high schools at great cost to their parents. Now that
tuition is being required of all children going to Washington, many
will be forced out.”
“The school at Manassas has never had the facilities nor
educational opportunities the equal of high school education for
white children. Although sought and hoped for for more than ten
years there is no gymnasium, no modern shops at Manassas. No matter
how qualified the teachers or how good the courses on paper without
adequate facilities the outcomes can never be equal.”
“The first high schools for white children were introduced in
Fairfax County in 1907. The first and only high school for
African-American children in Fairfax County, Luther Jackson High
School in Merrifield, opened in 1954.”
Luther Porter Jackson High School opened
in September 1954 as the high school for black students in Fairfax
County. Prior to this time, black students attended high school in
Washington,D.C. or were transported to the Industrial School of
Manassas. When Fairfax County Public Schools integrated, the school
reopened as Luther Jackson Intermediate School in September
1965.