School Integration and MCPS

Give students one of three short scenarios and have them answer the questions.

• Scenario I: A 21-year-old graduate of Amherst College applies to the University of Maryland Law School and is rejected despite strong qualifications. What could explain this? What would you advise him to do?

• Scenario II: A Rockville area elementary school teacher is being paid less than half the amount his colleagues at other schools make. What could explain this? What would you recommend he do about it?

• Scenario III: An 18-year-old girl nervously enters the gates of Glen Echo Amusement Park. As she climbs on to the spotted yellow horse on the merry-go-round her heart beats quickly. Why do you think she respond this way? What would you tell her if you were her friend?

Donald Murray Gwendolyn GreeneWilliam B. Gibbs, Jr.

Document Based Question

• Prompt: Using the documents provided explain the integration of Montgomery County Public Schools in terms of the pace of the process and the reaction to integration. What factors help explain why events unfolded as they did?

Sentinel, June 21, 1956

Margaret NolteSentinel, June 5, 1958