The Chicago Project

 2005 Chicago Project

The participants

Front row (right to left) India Vance, Tiara Walker, Melissa Neece, Eryn    Schoenfeld, Heather Chandler, Amanda Bailey, Charity Nestor, Kristy Roadfeldt, Brandi thomas.  Back row (right to left) Ms. Rachel Campbell (Teacher), Ronin Reynolds, Shannon Watson, Samantha Brewer, Jessica Hanes, Elisha Deckard, Jenna Combs, Andrew Schweiterman, Mr. john Wilson (Course Director)  

 In The Classroom

Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Students in the course meet twice per week after school for seven months.  We also devoted three Saturday nights in eight hour “marathon sessions” to learn about the Civil Rights Movement using the video series “Eyes on the Prize”. Topics included the history of Black images in American culture, Jim Crow, and lynching as domestic terrorism. We learned how through the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the student movement, and grassroots social protests, America was throwing off the last vestiges of legal public institutional discrimination.

 MLK Day March

On a very cold (sub zero) January morning, nine students participating in the course volunteered to come down to Dayton on their day off school to participate in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day march.  We started North of town and met up with groups coming from all parts of the city.   Over five thousand of us met at fountain square united in spirit to move our communities forward.