How do you mentally prepare
yourself to digest and tap into the atrocities that ARE our segregated America
?
Textbook editorials provide you with a synopsis,
but it is only on the first day of the civil rights movement that you uncover
the sadistic tapestry of Jim Crow. On my first day I experienced a world wind
of inescapable emotion that had previously been un-benounced to me. Our first
stop set the stage for the rest of our trip, gave me a new perspective,
overrode my indifference and diminished every textbooks coverage of the civil
rights movement to child's play. If Greensboro had been the heart of the
movement this building was definitely the pulse. Not even the best of authors
could mimic the emotion, injustice and bravery that accompanied the history
that radiated within these walls. Welcome to The Woolworth Museum. As we
toured the museum stories that I have now heard for the umpteenth time suddenly
sound different, the students that I have gotten to know over the past few
months appear to be more like companions than the associates we were just
weeks before, and the bus ride seems less like actual transportation and more
like a time machine. This trip is definitely off to a great start.
Destini Sheppard
12th Grade, Cristo Rey
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