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2024 Marching Down “Freedom’s Road”: Civil Rights to the Black Freedom Movement

By Ellen Resnek / Thursday, July 27, 2023 / Comments Off on 2024 Marching Down “Freedom’s Road”: Civil Rights to the Black Freedom Movement
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History was not made by just the famous names on all the statues and in all the books by Michele Russo

By Ellen Resnek / Wednesday, June 14, 2023 / Comments Off on History was not made by just the famous names on all the statues and in all the books by Michele Russo

Atlanta, Georgia  & Montgomery, Alabama – It has been made clear that women were  the backbone and at the forefront of the movement. Due to the times and circumstances of […]

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Digging Deeper into the Roots of the Fight by Elena Baum

By Ellen Resnek / Wednesday, June 14, 2023 / Comments Off on Digging Deeper into the Roots of the Fight by Elena Baum

Marching Down Freedom’s Road, Day 4 Each day we delve deeper into this history. We spent today in Selma, but on the way there, we stopped in Lowndes County, to […]

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June 13th Marching Down Freedom’s Road by Gloria Losey “A voteless people is a hopeless people”

By Ellen Resnek / Tuesday, June 13, 2023 / Comments Off on June 13th Marching Down Freedom’s Road by Gloria Losey “A voteless people is a hopeless people”

Today, June 13, 2023, Classrooms Without Borders and our intimate group of 23 traveled from Montgomery, the seat of power in Alabama, to Selma, Alabama, the center of another important […]

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Personal Reflection: by Jacqueline Clarke

By Ellen Resnek / Tuesday, June 13, 2023 / Comments Off on Personal Reflection: by Jacqueline Clarke

Today was a great jam packed day of learning, reflection and exposure. My pictures highlight the day but don’t nearly showcase the way my thinking of civil rights has expanded. […]

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From the Woolworth’s in Greensboro by Melody Meadows

By Ellen Resnek / Monday, June 12, 2023 / Comments Off on From the Woolworth’s in Greensboro by Melody Meadows

From the Woolworth’s in Greensboro to the immersive experience in Atlanta, I am reminded of the sacrifices made to secure freedom. I accept the responsibility of all Americans to secure […]

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Day 2 MDFR Blog by Sarah Smith

By Ellen Resnek / Monday, June 12, 2023 / Comments Off on Day 2 MDFR Blog by Sarah Smith

Day 2 begins bright & early with some breakfast at the hotel. Then we hop on the bus and head towards Atlanta. Our destination here was the National Center for […]

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Blog day 1, Greensboro by Daneila Buccilli

By Ellen Resnek / Sunday, June 11, 2023 / Comments Off on Blog day 1, Greensboro by Daneila Buccilli

The day was full and in the best way: we left our school year behind and 22 of us shared a bus drive toward Greensboro, North Carolina and the International […]

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Day 1 Marching Down Freedom’s Road By Sarah Smith

By Ellen Resnek / Saturday, June 10, 2023 / Comments Off on Day 1 Marching Down Freedom’s Road By Sarah Smith

We began our journey by meeting in the brisk morning air outside of Rodef Shalom & receiving our Classrooms Without Borders merch!  After a few hours of sleep we stopped […]

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‘Cycles of Violence and Peace in Cambodia’

By Ellen Resnek / Friday, April 28, 2023 / Comments Off on ‘Cycles of Violence and Peace in Cambodia’

Honoring the National Day of Remembrance for the Cambodian Genocide Cambodia’s story is often dominated by the 3 years and 8 months when the Khmer Rouge controlled the country. The […]

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