Journey of Hope
Materials:
Number of Players:
Directions:
First - Third Grade
Third Grade & Up
Rules:
First - Third Grade
Third Grade & Up
(Color Cards)
10 questions total for each category
Red - 4 forward/6 back
Blue - 7 forward/3 back
Green - 5 forward/5 back
Orange - 6 forward/4 back
Feel free to reword whatever...some of them got kind of wordy sorry :(
- Board
- Game pieces
- Game colored cards
- Dice
Number of Players:
- 2- 4
- To start the game roll the dice and whoever rolls the highest number, goes first.
Directions:
First - Third Grade
- To begin the game, the first person rolls the dice.
- The player then picks one of the cards. (The card can be of any color)
- They read their card out loud.
- If it is a positive they move the number of spaces specified by the dice forward.
- If it is a negative they move the number of spaces specified by the dice backwards.
- If it is the first turn of a player, and it is negative, they remain on the start position.
- Moving around the circle, each player repeats steps 1 through 3.
- As you continue to roll and pick cards, follow the arrows throughout the board.
- The first player to climb to the top of the mountain is the winner.
Third Grade & Up
- To begin the game, the first person rolls the dice.
- The player then picks one of the cards. (The card can be of any color)
- They read their card out loud.
- If it is a positive they move the number of spaces specified by the dice forward.
- If it is a negative they move the number of spaces specified by the dice backwards.
- If it is the first turn of a player, a player is not allowed to move onto the board unless the card is positive.
- Moving around the circle, each player repeats steps 1 through 3.
- Following turns:
- If the card is positive, they can move pieces on the board, or, put another piece into play; up to 3 pieces.
- If the card is negative, and your 3 pieces are on the board, you do not move backward the amount of spaces specified by the dice. One of your pieces must return to the start position.
- As you continue to roll and pick cards, follow the arrows throughout the board.
- The first player to climb to the top of the mountain is the winner.
Rules:
First - Third Grade
- If you roll an odd number you move one space
- If you roll an even number you move two spaces
- Each player can pick whatever color of card they would like; it does not have to be the same color throughout the game.
Third Grade & Up
- If you roll an odd number you move one space
- If you roll an even number you move two spaces
- Each player can pick whatever color of card they would like; it does not have to be the same color throughout the game.
- Each players given 3 game pieces.
- One piece may be added to the board with a positive card OR pieces already on the board can be moved forward.
- If the card is negative, and your 3 pieces are on the board, you do not move backward the amount of spaces specified by the dice. One of your pieces must return to the start position.
(Color Cards)
10 questions total for each category
Red - 4 forward/6 back
- Knights of the Ku Klux Klan form in the Fox Cities. :(
- Two White Appleton citizens witness lynchings of black men when the visit the south. :(
- The Emergency Farm Labor Act of 1943 brought around 150 black laborers to Appleton, helping them to find work. :)
- Employers in tourist areas, including Door County would only hire white people. They even posted “White Only” signs in their business’ windows. :(
- In 1935 Percy Julian was offered a position at the Paper Chemistry Institute in Appleton, but he had to decline because of Appleton being a Sundown town. :(
- In 1948 most restaurants said they would only serve “Respectable looking blacks”, the La Villa restaurant would not serve black people, they would only allow black musicians. :(
- Booker T. Washington speaks at the Methodist Church in Appleton about black education. :)
- In 1949 local religious leaders formed the Interfaith Committee on Tolerance and Understanding. This group wrote and spoke about Appleton becoming a more tolerant community with diversity. :)
- By the 1960’s black musicians such as Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong were able to stay at hotels in downtown Appleton. :)
- Leaders of the Appleton community warned white citizens of the “Negro problem” and encourage them to keep black people out of the city. :(
Blue - 7 forward/3 back
- In 1954 the Supreme Court ruled against “Separate but Equal” in Brown vs. Board of Education. This made the segregation of schools unconstitutional in the north and south (that includes the Fox Valley). :)
- in 1955 a young, 14 years old, black man from Chicago named Emmett Till was killed in Mississippi. :(
- To protest segregation and violence in the south blacks and whites came together to be freedom riders. This group included Jim Zwerg, a white man from Appleton. There were white people in Appleton supporting the rights of all people. :)
- Alabama Governor George Wallace, a man that believed in segregation, was invited to the Fox Cities by different community groups in 1972 and 1974. :(
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visits Wausau and UW-Fox Valley in 1967 to speak out against housing discrimination in northern cities. :)
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. states that the Fox Cities could emerge from a “Mountain of Hate” as a “Stone of Hope”. :)
- In 1969 the African American Association, a group of black students at Lawrence University, issued a list of demands known as the “Now or Never” list to the president of the University, but the list was taken as a suggestion and no action was taken. :(
- From 1980 to 2010 the black community has grown from 31 to 1,179 people. :)
- In 2002 Tony Awofeso became a publicly elected representative for District 15 on the Outagamie Council breaking color barriers. :)
- In 1996 the Police and the Appleton Area School District created staff positions that promote inclusion and diversity. These people also serve young people of color. :)
Green - 5 forward/5 back
- Black Families in the Fox Cities that had a Civil War Veteran, were small business owners were known as the “Black Aristocracy” and held positions of status in the community. :)
- Horace Artist, a black Civil War Veteran, moved to Appleton after witnessing the surrender of Robert E. Lee. :)
- By 1920 new subdivisions were being built in Appleton. These new subdivisions excluded blacks from living in their communities. Meaning, some communities in the Fox Valley African Americans were not aloud to buy houses :(
- James Monroe Paris, a black barber in Appleton, was elected Alderman in Waupaca in 1902. :)
- White people would put on Minstrel shows for entertainment around the country, including people from the Fox Valley. In these shows white people would put makeup on to make their skin darker and make fun of black culture. :(
- Appleton police targeted blacks in the community. Horace Artis, a citizen of Appleton was arrested in 1855 because the police claimed he was a homeless person. He had to spend Christmas in jail. :(
- The Tuskegee Singers, an all black group that was touring the northern United States, were invited to Lawrence University in 1915 to perform. After their performance they were not allowed to stay at the Northwest House, a hotel in Appleton, because they were black. :(
- In 1857 Robert Pendleton was the first black student admitted to Lawrence University. :)
- Lawrence University had some of the first integrated sports teams in Wisconsin. Claude Paris from New London attended the University and played on several of the athletic teams. :)
Orange - 6 forward/4 back
- Two free African American men started a Fur Trade :)
- Horace Artist, William Cleggett, and Joseph Elmore fought in the Civil War as part of the United States Colored Troops. :)
- The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 made it slavey not allowed in Wisconsin :)
- Andrew Jackson an African American man founded the town of Freedom :)
- Moses Stanton formed the town of Chilton :)
- The right given to people in the Wisconsin State Constitution excluded African Americans. :(
- Slaves that came to the free state of Wisconsin could still be caught and sent back to unfree states :(
- The state passes the 14th Amendment granting black people citizenship. :)
- The Fox Valley votes against the Negro Suffrage Amendment of 1857, meaning blacks still could not vote. :(
- Robert Pendleton, a black student at Lawrence University tried to vote but his vote was thrown out. :(
Feel free to reword whatever...some of them got kind of wordy sorry :(