Kindergartner Zully Membreno was well prepared.
“Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white person,” Zully said.
As Black History Month winds down, teachers are hopeful that the lessons learned by students about groundbreaking African Americans will last a lifetime. February was a month when students and staff made posters and did school work and homework assignments dedicated to the significant contributions of current and past African-Americans.
The celebration continues with a districtwide Black History Month program February 28 at Southwest Campus where Zully and others will perform.
East Campus was decorated with posters, drawings and other art to celebrate African-American “firsts” and inventors. On one wall in the form of baseball jerseys was the number “42” under the names of PreK students. That display was in honor of Jackie Robinson, who courageously broke the major league baseball color barrier in 1947. His number 42 has been retired and no other baseball player will ever wear that number again.
Another wall featured drawings of jazz musicians and composers ranging from Duke Ellington to Scott Joplin.
Kindergarten students eagerly lined a wall this week to display their art and pose for pictures.