Wilson School students get Civil Rights Movement lessons firsthand, on location
Date: 1/13/2012 Album ID: 1394871
Photos by Christian Gooden
Twenty Wilson sixth graders traveled to Memphis and Little Rock Arkansas on an educational seminar on the Civil Rights Movement called Sojourn to the Past. Students met people directly involved in the movement like the Rev. Billy Kyles friend and colleague of Martin Luther King Jr., and two of the Little Rock Nine students Minnijean Brown-Trickey and Elizabeth Eckford.
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Jeff Steinberg, executive director of Sojourn to the Past educational seminar on Civil Rights, leads a discussion with Wilson School 6th graders in a Memphis hotel Tuesday Jan. 9, 2012. The group was in Memphis to see the Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated which is now a museum.
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Wilson 6th grader Dylan Cassilly, left, answers questions from teacher Jeff Steinberg, right, during a lesson about government and law Monday Jan. 9, 2012. Twenty Wilson 6th graders travelled to Memphis and Little Rock Arkansas on an educational seminar on the Civil Rights Movement called Sojourn to the Past. Students met people directly involved in the movement such as Dr. King friend and colleague the Rev. Billy Kyles, and Little Rock Nine students Minnijean Brown-Trickey and Elizabeth Eckford.
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Wilson School 6th grader Nathan Phan works on an exercise during a lecture of the Sojourn to the Past, an educational seminar on the Civil Rights Movement.
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The Rev. Billy Kyles, a friend and colleague of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who was present when he was shot and killed in Memphis in 1968, gives his perspective on civil rights to Wilson School 6th graders in a hotel in Memphis Monday Jan. 9, 2012. The 6th graders were on a three-day Civil Rights historical educational seminar called Sojourn to the Past, where they traveled to significant places of the 1960's movement against racial discrimination.
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Wilson School 6th graders Thomas Miller Jr., bottom, and Matthew Gelfman watch a documentary about the first African American students to integrate the public school system of Little Rock during a bus ride to the city from Memphis. At the historic Little Rock Central High School auditorium, the Wilson students met Elizabeth Eckford, who is shown on the video monitor.
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Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine, speaks to Wilson School 6th graders in the auditorium of Little Rock Central High School Tuesday Jan. 10, 2012. Eckford and eight other students broke the color barrier in 1958 by integrating the then all-white public high school following the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling.
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Jeff Steinberg, left, lead teacher with the Sojourn to the Past educational seminar on Civil Rights, instructs Wilson School 6th graders Taylor Conrad and Christopher Swanson to honor Dr. Martin Luther King's legacy by kissing two fingers and placing them on his name on a placard outside the Lorraine Motel and Civil Rights Museum in Memphis Tennessee Tuesday Jan. 10, 2012. Steinberg's Sojourn to the Past, encourages lessons learned from the Civil Rights movement be applied to life philosophy, protecting the dignity of others when it is threatened. 
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Wilson School 6th graders, from left, Josephine Moten, Elizabeth Cohen, Nathan Phan and Alex Figueras work on exercises on a bus after visiting historic Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas Tuesday Jan. 10, 2012.
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A monument of statues of the likenesses of the Little Rock Nine stands outside the capitol building in Little Rock, Arkansas Tuesday Jan. 10, 2012. It is the only monument on a state capitol grounds dedicated to the Civil Rights Movement. The Nine were the first group of African American students to integrate the all-white Little Rock Central High School in 1957, facing a firestorm of resistance and disrespect.
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Wilson School 6th grader Thomas Miller Jr. works on an exercise at the Civil Rights Museum during a trip to Memphis and Little Rock as part of the Sojourn to the Past educational seminar for students Jan. 11, 2012. Twenty Wilson students met figures with first-hand experience in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 60s, llike the Rev. Billy Kyles, who was standing next Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he was shot and killed. They also met two of the Little Rock Nine, the first African Americans to attend a public all-white high school in Little Rock Arkansas in 1958.
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