The girls with Ms. Joanne Bland and her granddaughter, who is a 6th grader in Selma, ALThe girls have given you a good summary of today. If one's head could spin around from experiencing so much, today would be the day. From seeing the capitol and hearing a rather different view of the history we've been studying to then hearing the first-hand experiences of Ms. Joanne Bland and her sister it was history alive and very personal. All I could picture was students the age of DeLong students learning how to protest for their freedoms, bravely marching, getting thrown into jail and going right back the next day for more. Ms. Bland's sister talked movingly about getting beaten on the first march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge and wanting to march several days later to Montgomery so she could show the governor what his people had done to her and that she was going to succeed despite him. Thanks
for reading.
for reading. This is a pic of Anika at the Civil Rights Memorial typing her name to go on the wall.
The girls in front of the Civil Rights Memorial
8 comments:
Cool pictures.
J.O
How do you type your name to go on the wall of Civil Rites?
C.W.
What did the capital look like?
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(GS)
That is cool how you can put your name on the wall! But does it stay forever or until they run out of room and they go over it?
CU
Oh wow! I need to visit there sometime! Sounds awesome! I wish I could have been there when she told the story!
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Anonymous (S.T.)
Cool pictures
AB
When you put your name on the wall you first enter your name into the macine that Anika standing next to (2nd picture). The machine then keeps your name programed, so when we were there a bunch of the name were floating around on the screen. So yes, your name does stay in the program, which means it will float along the screen sometime.
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