Thursday, December 1, 2011

Announcements for Thursday, December 01, 2011 - Day 6

  1. Today’s lunch is Macaroni and Cheese, low fat white or chocolate milk, and assorted fruits and vegetables.

 

  1. Yearbook staff please be reminded of our meeting tomorrow at 2:40 until 3:30. We are working on our cover selection!!!

 

  1. On this day in 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, a violation of the city's racial segregation laws. The successful Montgomery Bus Boycott, organized by a young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., followed Park's historic act of civil disobedience.

 

  1. On this day in 1913, Henry Ford installs the first moving assembly line for the mass production of an entire automobile. His innovation reduced the time it took to build a car from more than 12 hours to two hours and 30 minutes.