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Students from Maryann Wolfe’s
U.S. History class visited Washington, D.C. to learn more
about how the United States government works,
tour Capitol
Hill, attend judiciary seminars and meet with government
officials. They also visited Colonial Williamsburg, the
birthplace of the American Revolution.
The opportunity to
document contemporary
and colonial government “in
action,” and compare
and contrast civil rights of the past and the
present provided
a unique learning experience.
Excerpt from
the students’ concept paper:
Most Americans
associate the civil rights movement with Martin
Luther King
and the march on Washington, but the struggle for civil
rights spans the centuries, from the 18th to
the 21st. Civil
Rights News Now (CRNN) will cover both the contemporary
and colonial civil rights issues that continue to shape
our nation. CRNN reporters will file reports
from the field
in order to update the audience on some of the oldest and
latest breaking civil rights news. The goal is to create
an informed public that has the proper context
to evaluate,
and perhaps participate in, future movements
for civil rights.
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