The Lesson

Anticipatory Set

1. Define the following terms: Initial Complaint, Democracy, Dissent, Segregation and Injunction.
   
   
2. What are the goals stated by the plaintiffs in the Initial Complaint for this case? Read page one and page two of the Initial Complaint.
   
   
3. Why does Judge Waring dissent? How does he use democratic ideals to support his arguments? View page one and page two. Discuss with the class.

Procedures

1. Read the excerpt about the Clark Study then have your students become the subjects. Click on the image of the two dolls and print for your students.
   
   
   
   Take the Dolls Test:
   
   
   • "Show me the doll you like best or that you'd like to play with."
   • "Show me the doll that is the 'nice' doll."
   • "Show me the doll that looks 'bad'."
   • "Give me the doll that looks like the white child."
   • "Give me the doll that looks like the colored child."
   • "Give me the doll that looks like the Negro child."
   • "Give me the doll that looks like you."
   
   
2. Read the section on Briggs v. Elliott in Chapter Two (pages. 39-50). Have the class create a play based on the text and the documents provided above. How were the dolls used in this case?

Liza R. Rognas is a librarian and historian at The Evergreen State College Library in Olympia, Washington.

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