OUR PHOTOS FROM SELMA, ALABAMA – Please take a look!
Look here for Muskegon Chronicle coverage of our Selma trip.
March 6 to 9, 2009 fifteen Oakridge students and three teachers traveled to Selma, Alabama to participate in the “Bridge Crossing Jubilee.” We also visited Montgomery and Birmingham and Marion. We sang, we marched, we [...]
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Stay tuned for “Selma Stories” – 4:00 to 5:00 minute podcasts created by each one of the travelers on this trip. Students will share a story with you about their experience. The choice is theirs, the voice is theirs. These will be up and posted by March 23. Please check back [...]
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Monday March 9 – Agenda:
Meet Al Ben – journalist for the Montgomery Advertiser
Go to the Viola Liuzzo marker (martyr of the movement)
Go to Jonathon Daniels marker (martyr of the movement)
Tour of the Dexter Church in Montgomery (home church of Martin Luther King Jr.)
Tour of the Rosa Parks Museum
Say Goodbye to Alabama at the Civil Rights [...]
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Blogging is not an exact science. A little update on Friday’s blog – we do actually sit down and talk about the blog before it’s posted. Nyssa did a nice job on her post. I did a little editing on Saturday. The edit didn’t take, because as I’m looking [...]
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Saturday March 7
Today’s Agenda:
10:00 tour with Joanne Bland around the sites of Selma
Jubilee Street Fair – walking around town
back to the hotel
back to the Street Fair
back to the hotel
Chapter One – Angelina Mosher
Okay so today we got up after a great nights rest, because we were all exhausted from the traveling. We got ready. I [...]
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Torrey – Just a short intro – we will place a couple photos and a link to your podcast. So give me a paragraph or two…and if you have a photo email it to me and I’ll link here.
Great podcast by the way.
mrw
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Podcast (3:00) An invitation from Corey Swanson.
March 5, 2009 – Introduction (Bob Wood)
Photos from Selma, Alabama 1965.
Photos from Birmingham, Alabama 1963.
Photos from Montgomery, Alabama 1956.
From March 6 to March 9, fifteen Oakridge students and three teachers will travel south to Alabama to revisit the roots of the Civil Rights movement. Over the span of those [...]
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You can watch the video conference with Congressman Lewis here. The Congressman was detained on the House floor for a vote, so the first thirty minutes of the conference is a discussion with Andrew Adyn, an aide to Congressman Lewis.
On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks said “No” when they told [...]
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Thursday February 12 @ 2:00 PM at the MAISD a video conference has been scheduled with Congressman John Lewis, District #5, Georgia. We will be released at 1:10 and drive to the MAISD. Please dress appropriately…and most importantly be prepared.
I just finished reading Mr. Green’s excerpts from “Walking with the Wind”. Whoa. Make sure that [...]
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I apologize for not getting everything together for last month’s bake sale. We are going to have ours Wednesday the 11th and Thursday the 12th both lunches. We need to make sure to have nine people who will commit to bring something in, no more that nine and we need three, at least, to help [...]
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