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    For the book to pair with primary source images, I would us the Book Separate is Never Equal/ This is a true story about segregation in schools. Sylvia Mendez moved to  a new town. When her aunt took Sylvia, her siblings and her cousins to register for school, it did not turn out the way they expected. Sylvia and her siblings were sent to the "Mexican School. Sylvia's cousins went to the regular school because they didn't look Mexican, they looked white. Students of color were sent to the  "Mexican School" because of the color if their skin. Because of how these students looked they were mistreated and thought of as inferior. The schools could not be more opposite. Sylvia's father did not accept this and took the school district to court, it was not an easy battle. I am also using this book for my final project. This is a great book that could be used for a lot if different activities and images. 

    I am thinking for this using the book along with an image station in small group. I would provide sentence stems and vocab to help students have a conversation around the image while connecting it with the book. I would model with an image first and how it should look.  I would ask, how are is the book and image connected? These books and images are from the past why is so important that we understand what segregation is? Is everyone equal in society now? Could you find an image to support your opinion? I would use this lesson during our Civil Rights unit is Social Studies. 

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    Mrs. Claire Cumberbatch, of 1303 Dean St., leader of the Bedford-Stuyvesant group protesting alleged "segregated" school, leads oath of allegiance
    Sign on restaurant, Lancaster, Ohio
    Beale Street, Memphis, Tennessee
    Indian women in railway coach below signs reading "Native females" and "Third Class"
    At the bus station in Durham, North Carolina
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