Post-Trip to the South & Our Class Project

We are beyond proud of our 9th graders. We had an incredible trip with the students to Georgia and Alabama on our Civil Rights Journey.

Eli, our tour guide, led us on a path throughout these two states to learn about the Civil Rights movement. He led us through Montgomery, Birmingham, Selma and Atlanta to learn about the history of the movement and showed us the places where the most publicly significant occurrences happened. The students were engaged and captured from the people we met, sites we saw and museums we visited. Whether it was crossing the Edmund Pettis Bridge, visiting The Legacy Museum from the Equal Justice initiative or Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Ebenezer Baptist Church. Our hope is the students are walking away from this trip changed, inspired and ready to fight for justice throughout their lives.

Our final three sessions of class will be to engage and put to work the student’s community organizing project: starting to recycle plastic goods to CBE. Throughout our classes, students have identified why this is important, what are alternatives, who to reach out to to make this change happen and how to make this change. We are confident the students will make this happen and continue fighting for good.