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Help HS Students Study the Past & Shape the Future

Letty Minier organiza esta recaudación de fondos en beneficio de East Side Community High School Parent Association.

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East Side Community School is a 6-12th grade Title I (Over 60% of students eligible for free lunch) public school in the Lower East Side of NYC. In a school system that is unfortunately quite segregated, East Side is a rare public school where the population is truly diverse and mirrors the neighborhood and the city. As a Facing History partner school, students study history as a way to impact the present and future.

In May, we will be taking forty 9th,10th, and 11th-grade students on a week-long trip to learn about the Civil Rights Movement and its legacy and lessons for today. On this trip to Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee, students will visit many historical sights and museums, meet and learn from past and present history makers and activists, visit colleges, meet with other high school students, and deeply reflect on their experiences. The students who join us will use what they experience and learn to lead peers in learning and action. The NYC DOE recently opened up out of state travel, and our staff worked hard to reschedule and plan this trip for this spring. However, due to the economic needs of our students and the short notice of this trip, we are looking for funding to help provide scholarships and offset the base cost of the trip.

A few examples of things we will be doing:

Walk across the Edmund Petis Jr. Bridge in Selma and meet with people who marched across it with MLK and John Lewis in 1965 on the march to Montgomery for voting rights
Visit the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute
Meet with activists and students who are working on voting rights in Georgia and Alabama
Visit the MLK JR. Birth Home, Ebenezer Baptist Church, and The King Center
Visit the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Hotel (where MLK was murdered) and visit the Mason Temple Church, where King gave his “mountaintop” speech the night before he was assassinated.
Meet with high school student activists in Memphis
Visit Stax Museum of American Soul Music and WDIA Radio Station (the first radio station to dedicate its entire programming to African American music)
Visit the Rosa Parks Museum
Visit the Freedom Rides Museum and speak with participants
Visit Dexter Avenue Church and other key sites of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Visit the Equal Justice Institute (Bryan Stevenson/Just Mercy) and visit The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Incarceration.
Take a class at Alabama State University on the role of Alabama State University during The Civil Rights era followed by meeting with current student activists
Visit the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, which was bombed by Klansmen killing 4 young girls
“Take a walk through history” at The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Meet with many other history makers and activists past and present
Tour colleges