This collection of student work is from
Frank Keim's classes. He has wanted to share these works for others
to use as an example of Culturally-based curriculum and documentation. These
documents have been OCR-scanned. These are available
for educational use only.
The Bad
Times
It was 1965 when the riots broke out.
They started when a black man named Jed was severely beaten by a
white man in Mississippi.
One evening Jed was walking home
after work when a white man came up to him and started calling him
names. Jed tried to ignore him but the man wouldn't quit. He kept
heckling Jed with things like, "Go back to Africa where you belong,
nigger! Niggers have no right to be in America. They should all be
slaves again!" Jed just kept on walking, but the heckler just went on
and on about black people. Then he starting pushing Jed. Jed finally
felt compelled to fight back although he'd tried his very best to
hold it in. He remembered what his mama told him time and time again,
that violence wouldn't settle anything. Then all of a sudden a fist
came down on Jed. His head felt as if it were struck by a hammer and
blood trickled off his face and he began to feel warm inside. The
scent of blood and sweat was all around him. The white man walked
away as if nothing happened.
When Jed got home his aunt Nell asked
him what had happened to him. He told her that a white man had picked
a fight with him and knocked him down. This upset her and she tried
reporting it to the police, but they wouldn't listen to her. It
seemed that all the white folks were against them and she didn't know
what to do. When she tried to voice some of her concerns to the city
hall, it was as if the government wasn't listening to her.
One night late in the week a band of
the Ku Klux Klan appeared outside of her house and chanted and
hollered for Jed and his aunt to come out. The other black people in
the neighborhood were all too frightened to do anything about it.
Then the men set up a wooden cross in her front yard and set it on
fire. Jed and his aunt were scared stiff and didn't know what to do.
All the commotion and panic confused them too much. Then when one of
the men pulled out a gun and shot it towards their house, suddenly
without warning a white man living across the street came out with
his double barrel shot gun and fired it twice in the air and told the
men to get the hell away from their house.
The next day Nell and Jed thanked
Rick for getting rid of the men. Rick was a public defender and took
an active interest in their case. But a couple of days later a gang
of Klanners attacked Rick for defending Jed and his aunt. Rick
reported it to the police but they acted like it was no big deal and
did nothing about it. Finally Rick took the case to Federal Court and
prepared to fight a hard battle.
A few weeks later the Klan terrorized
the whole black neighborhood around Jed's house. But Nell spoke up
again, telling her neighbors that they had to do something about this
soon, or they'd never be in control of their lives again. That's when
the riots began. The next night blacks attacked white stores and
other white-owned businesses in the neighborhood. Police were sent in
but the neighborhood had become a battleground. When the police could
no longer control the situation the national guard had to be sent in
to stop them from destroying the entire town. Day and night there
were shots and explosions and fires everywhere which completely tore
up the life of the town. It only ended when Rick finally won his case
for Jed and Nell in Federal Court.
Fred Alstrom
Thanks
Rick!
My name is
Kerry and I have
AIDS
(Now I'm dead!)
Going,
Going Gone!
Man and the
Environment
Christmastime Tales
Stories real and imaginary about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year
Winter, 1996 |
Christmastime Tales II
Stories about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year
Winter, 1998 |
Christmastime Tales III
Stories about Christmas, Slavik, and the New Year
Winter, 2000 |
| Summer Time Tails 1992 |
Summertime Tails II 1993 |
Summertime Tails III |
| Summertime Tails IV Fall, 1995 |
Summertime Tails V Fall, 1996 |
Summertime Tails VI Fall, 1997 |
| Summertime Tails VII Fall, 1999 |
Signs of the Times November 1996 |
Creative Stories From Creative Imaginations |
| Mustang Mind Manglers - Stories of the Far Out,
the Frightening and the Fantastic 1993 |
Yupik Gourmet - A Book of
Recipes |
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| M&M Monthly |
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| Happy Moose Hunting! September Edition 1997 |
Happy Easter! March/April 1998 |
Merry Christmas December Edition 1997 |
| Happy Valentine’s
Day! February Edition
1998 |
Happy Easter! March/April Edition 2000 |
Happy Thanksgiving Nov. Edition, 1997 |
| Happy Halloween October 1997 Edition |
Edible and Useful Plants of Scammon
Bay |
Edible Plants of Hooper Bay 1981 |
| The Flowers of Scammon Bay Alaska |
Poems of Hooper Bay |
Scammon Bay (Upward Bound Students) |
| Family Trees and the Buzzy Lord |
It takes a Village - A guide for parents May 1997 |
People in Our Community |
| Buildings and Personalities of
Marshall |
Marshall Village PROFILE |
Qigeckalleq Pellullermeng ‘A
Glimpse of the Past’ |
| Raven’s
Stories Spring 1995 |
Bird Stories from Scammon Bay |
The Sea Around Us |
| Ellamyua - The Great Weather - Stories about the
Weather Spring 1996 |
Moose Fire - Stories and Poems about Moose November,
1998 |
Bears Bees and Bald Eagles Winter 1992-1993 |
| Fish Fire and Water - Stories about fish, global warming
and the future November, 1997 |
Wolf Fire - Stories and Poems about Wolves |
Bear Fire - Stories and Poems about Bears Spring,
1992 |
Marshall
Cultural Atlas