Today we did a lot of things. First thing this morning we went on a bus tour of New Orleans. We got to see the school that Ruby Bridge's integrated. Plus we got to see where Homer Plessy was arrested which led to the Supreme Court Case that legalized segregation. Then we saw the church where Martin Luther King Jr. started the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. We also saw what happened because of Hurrican Katrina. It was so sad to see that about half of the homes are still empty.After the bus tour we went to the Tulane University to see the Amistad Research Center. We learned about the Amistad slave uprising. I did not know about the Amistad so I learned some new things. I was happy that the slaves were able to go back to Africa. In the picture we are reading a copy of the letter that some of the freed men and children wrote President Adams to thank him for freeing them. One of the children on the slave ship was my age. That made me sad.
Then we went to lunch. After lunch we went on a swamp tour it was so fun. When the swamp tour was done we went to the French Quarter and went shopping. Then we went to preservation hall, to see a old time jazz band. The bass drummer was 79 and was awesome. Mr. Wells would have loved it! Mrs. Huston would
love it too.
