Bus provides tangible lesson on civil rights
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Rafael Johnson who has written many books, reports on the civil rights movement. But Thursday, he was a bit in history, sitting in a bus, which overlapped the Montgomery, Ala., roads after the urban boycotts. The Center for the Study of Civil Law and Human Rights Law reveals a bus, restored in 1957 as similar to the Montgomery bus where Rosa Parks refused to give up their seats. As part of Black History Month, the civil rights movement museum on wheels was sitting outside City Hall Fitz Hugh Street, where there are several groups of students have learned something around and on the past. The city bus and visit schools in the coming weeks. “There are so many things in our history that people do not know. In addition, pursuant to the letter of the Book of all the reports, there was always so much information that I learned about the civil rights movement, “said Johnson, 17, of Rochester.” Increasingly people, mostly African-Americans, we must know our history and what happened before that some of us were born. ” His mother, Tanishia Johnson, the bus was also a strong reminder of tougher times. “We can not be afraid to talk about the history of what happens to us. I know it is hard, but it’s true, and every neighborhood and S-students should know, the stories of our past. ” The original green vinyl seats to show a little wear and tear, and there are still some characters designated, where people in black and white was the man to rest. The bus has an original soundtrack of the video by a Wilson Magnet High School, and students-East and the audio-video Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King, widow of the slain rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. “People have the feeling, and at first hand what we see, went through the civil rights movement in the movement to be able not to forget or repeat past mistakes,” said Van White, Board Member School City, as the historic leader of the event on Thursday. |