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7 th Grade Bell Ringers By: Jeffrey W. Rose

7 th Grade Bell Ringers By: Jeffrey W. Rose. 7 th Grade Bell Ringers. From Texas to the White House

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7 th Grade Bell Ringers By: Jeffrey W. Rose

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  1. 7th Grade Bell Ringers By: Jeffrey W. Rose

  2. 7th Grade Bell Ringers From Texas to the White House President Lyndon B. Johnson began his academic career in 1926. Johnson enrolled in Southwest Texas State Teachers' College (now Texas State University – San Marcos). He worked his way through school but from 1928 to 1929, Johnson put his studies on hold to teach Mexican-American children at the (then) segregated Welhausen School in Cotulla, south of San Antonio in La Salle County. Later, when he became president, Johnson’s time spent at the school influenced him to create which Act designed to strengthen the educational resources of our colleges and universities and to provide financial assistance for students in postsecondary and higher education? • No Child Left Behind Act of 1954 • Higher Education Act of 1965 • Educational Act of 1957 • Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 TEKS:§113.19 (b) (7) (D)

  3. 7th Grade Bell Ringers Civil Rights Law Sweattv. Painter (1950) was a landmark case that used the law school at University of Texas to show the previous ruling of separate but equal was unconstitutional and denied civil rights for African-Americans. The court case set the precedent for which other monumental decision that desegregated public schools? • Smith v. Allwright (1944) • Johnson v. Board of Education (1952) • Nixon v. State of Texas (1947) • Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Brown v. Board of Education (1954) TEKS:§113.19 (b) (7) (D)

  4. 7th Grade Bell Ringers Resistance to School Desegregation After the Brown v. Board ruling, schools were federally forced to desegregate and allowed students of all races to attend the same public school. When local school districts were forced to apply the measure, it was met with a backlash of angry mobs that were against the ruling. Alan Shivers, the Governor of Texas at the time, even ordered the Texas Rangers to stop federal integration at which local high school? • Stephen F. Austin High School in Austin • Scurry-Rosser High School • Booker T. Washington High School of the Performing Arts in Dallas • Mansfield High School • Mansfield High School TEKS:§113.19 (b) (7) (D)

  5. 7th Grade Bell Ringers Support for Veterans The University of North Texas (UNT) has an extensive program called Veterans Center designed to help soldiers and sailors readjust to civilian life after the military. The benefits veterans receive at UNT and other universities are a result of the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act instated after WWII, which is commonly referred to as what? • Welcome Home Act of 1944 • GI Bill • Soldier and Sailor Relief Act of 1945 • Veteran’s Act • GI Bill TEKS:§113.19 (b) (7) (E)

  6. 7th Grade Bell Ringers Oveta Culp Hobby OvetaCulp Hobby graduated from the University of Texas Law School in 1925 and later became the Director of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (known better as the Women’s Army Corps – WAC). Hobby’s experience organizing the WAC allowed her to become the first female secretary of this then newly created agency? • Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyard Administration • US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare • National Women’s Administration • National Council on Disability • US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare TEKS:§113.19 (b) (7) (D)

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