History was not made by just the famous names on all the statues and in all the books by Michele Russo
Atlanta, Georgia & Montgomery, Alabama – It has been made clear that women were the backbone and at the forefront of the movement. Due to the times and circumstances of how the world was (and is) run, they and their stories were changed or rarely even told. Rosa Parks was a champion for women who […]
Beyond the Wall of Names: Evidence of a Life Lived by Deborah Schwarz
Beyond the Wall of Names: Evidence of a Life Lived I grew up surrounded by grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. I thought that was normal. Once I graduated high school, I realized it was not. Both of my paternal grandparents, my Bobbie Ida and my Zaydie Aaron, survived the Holocaust and remain the most forceful influences […]
Digging Deeper into the Roots of the Fight by Elena Baum
Marching Down Freedom’s Road, Day 4 Each day we delve deeper into this history. We spent today in Selma, but on the way there, we stopped in Lowndes County, to visit the site of a Civil Rights era Tent City and learn more about the quest for voting rights. In 1965 (and even today) Lowndes […]
Blog Post – 6.13.23 by Gregory Smolinski
Passing It on to the Next Generation Today we left Montgomery to travel west to Lowndes County and Selma, Alabama on Day 4 of Marching, Riding, Walking, Sweating, Talking, Laughing, Crying, Sleeping, and Eating our way down Freedom’s Road. As we all know, googling for days and hours of operation for many businesses and institutions […]
June 13th Marching Down Freedom’s Road by Gloria Losey “A voteless people is a hopeless people”
Today, June 13, 2023, Classrooms Without Borders and our intimate group of 23 traveled from Montgomery, the seat of power in Alabama, to Selma, Alabama, the center of another important seat of power with the famous Voting Rights March that occurred March 7, 1965 to March 21, 1965. The first stop was the Lowndes County […]
Day 3 MDFR Michaela Goodnight
We woke up in Atlanta and started the morning in Marin Luther King Jr. Center where we viewed the resting place of both hom and his wife. We then loaded the bus and headed to Montgomery Alabama for our next stop. First stop in Montgomery was the Rosa Parks Museum, which I enjoyed. They had […]
Personal Reflection: by Jacqueline Clarke
Today was a great jam packed day of learning, reflection and exposure. My pictures highlight the day but don’t nearly showcase the way my thinking of civil rights has expanded. While at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Change Inc., I came across the rose garden where I found student poems that promoted […]
Too busy to hate? by Owen Dwyer
Back in the day, Atlanta’s powerbrokers boasted that their city was too busy to hate. Is there a time for hate? Last night we ate a family style supper with Charles and JoEtta Person. Mr. Person is one of only a few remaining Freedom Riders, a group of civil rights activists who risked their lives […]
From the Woolworth’s in Greensboro by Melody Meadows
From the Woolworth’s in Greensboro to the immersive experience in Atlanta, I am reminded of the sacrifices made to secure freedom. I accept the responsibility of all Americans to secure this freedom for future generations. I acknowledge the tenacity of the four young men who sat at the counter and the impact they had on […]