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Reflections by Melody Meadows

By Ellen Resnek / Saturday, June 17, 2023 / Comments Off on Reflections by Melody Meadows

As we are coming to the end of our journey, I have been reflecting on the title for this seminar: Marching Down Freedom’s Road. It is now up to us […]

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A Few Parting Thoughts by Cephus Moore

By Ellen Resnek / Saturday, June 17, 2023 / Comments Off on A Few Parting Thoughts by Cephus Moore

Fun fact:  I have never written a blog before!  Well, I wrote one the other night, so a more truthful statement would be:  I had not written a blog until participating […]

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My Lyrical Reflection: To learn deeply and forever by Daniela Buccilli

By Ellen Resnek / Friday, June 16, 2023 / Comments Off on My Lyrical Reflection: To learn deeply and forever by Daniela Buccilli

The Legacy Museum begins in the seasick-all of nowhere land, the Atlantic Ocean. Atlas (the World Carrier). It begins with a seemingly endless place without land — water, a symbol […]

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“Boardman teachers to travel to Poland for ‘Classrooms Without Borders’ journey”

By Ellen Resnek / Friday, June 16, 2023 / Comments Off on “Boardman teachers to travel to Poland for ‘Classrooms Without Borders’ journey”

Get insights into how Boardman teachers are embarking on a transformative journey to Poland as part of Classrooms Without Borders.

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Birmingham: The winners make the memorials by Owen Dwyer

By Ellen Resnek / Thursday, June 15, 2023 / Comments Off on Birmingham: The winners make the memorials by Owen Dwyer

Day Five of our tour and we visited  Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham, Alabama. The park occupies a central location in the city’s civil rights history. It sits across the […]

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Music as Motivation and Education by Greg Smolinski

By Ellen Resnek / Thursday, June 15, 2023 / Comments Off on Music as Motivation and Education by Greg Smolinski

The Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s in the United States was a time of intense activism, bravery, and a collective fight for justice and equality. Among the […]

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We are here! By Christy Shaughnessy

By Ellen Resnek / Thursday, June 15, 2023 / Comments Off on We are here! By Christy Shaughnessy

Truth Telling & America’s History of Racial Injustices Day five of our journey began with an emotional tour of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, where […]

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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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Blog Post – 6.13.23 by Gregory Smolinski

By Ellen Resnek / Tuesday, June 13, 2023 / Comments Off on Blog Post – 6.13.23 by Gregory Smolinski

Passing It on to the Next Generation  Today we left Montgomery to travel west to Lowndes County and Selma, Alabama on Day 4 of Marching, Riding, Walking, Sweating, Talking, Laughing, […]

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