Read the excerpt from My Story. I did not go down with the others to present that petition to the bus company and the city offic
ials, because I didn’t feel anything could be accomplished. I had decided that I would not go anywhere with a piece of paper in my hand asking white folks for any favors. I had made that decision myself, as an individual. Now look at this graphic organizer. What belongs in the blank "Effect” box? She did not sign the petition to the bus company. She did not like the petition to the bus company. She did not go with her friends to present the petition. She did not believe her friends would sign the petition.
He had the blue-eyed children put on green construction paper armbands. And then she told the children that the brown-eyed students were smarter. Elliott came up with an explanation: Intelligence, she told the children, was determined by melanin.
