Civil Rights Elementary School Assembly

Description: Civil Rights Tour inspired elementary school students to engage civically. 

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Analysis: In January of this year, my cohort and I had the chance of touring historical sites during the civil rights movement. We went to Alabama and Georgia, to places like the 16th Baptist Church and Ebenezer Baptist Church where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and his family worshipped. My daughter went along with us, and while it was very painful for her to see some of the ugly truths of America, it prepared her for the journey we were on in terms of the current political climate.

My daughter made a slide show about her experience where she narrated descriptions that she wrote. It gained a lot of attention and we got to present it at her school-wide assembly. 

My daughter also had gotten the permission from the principal to do a protest  to protest the current leader who she did not see fit as being president. She did this with others children in her class. 

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Reflection: Going on the civil rights tour and giving my daughter real world history lessons was very empowering to me as a parent. Not only did I get to learn organizing methods that we explored in class, but I got to be surrounded by social justice history. It was also great that I got to introduce my daughter and her slide show with her at her school. I made sure to plant some seeds in my introduction that told kids that the movement was filled with people of many races. 

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