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Day two: the 2012 Civil Rights Trip

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An hour-by-hour play-by-play

 

 
Throughout the trip south, eighth graders fill journals with observations and reflections. These are the raw material for scrapbooks and spoken presentations that they work on for the rest of the month.
 
 
Below is a different kind of writing: an eighth grader's hour-by-hour account of the first day. If the students' journals were blogs, then these would be one student's 'tweets':
 
Day #2
Wednesday February 8
 
 
 
7:31am 
Breakfast in hotel – yummy! Six friends at a two-person table.
 
 
9:13am 
Back on the bus!
 
 
9:53am 
We are at the 16th Street Baptist Church, meeting with FBI agents Ben and Tina who investigated the 1963 bombing. 
 
 
11:15am 
Back on the bus, reflecting and heading to Selma.
 
 
 
12:58pm 
Arriving at Essie’s for lunch with Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson, whose Selma home served as headquarters for the organizers of the march from Selma to Montgomery.
 
 
1:46pm 
I bought Mrs. Jackson’s book, The House on The Side of the Road. Great experience! 
 
 
2:56pm 
Leaving Essie’s with Coach Huggins. who was a Selma schoolteacher during the Civil Rights Movement
 
 
 
4:31pm 
 
 
4:45pm 
Back on the bus and journaling.  I’ve filled up 29 pages already!!!
 
 
4:57pm 
Headed toward Montgomery, but dropping Coach Huggins off back at Essie’s first.
 
 
5:04pm 
Students sharing journal entries with one another.  Great sharing!
 
 
6:00pm 
We arrive at the Golden Corral.
 
 
7:19pm 
Arriving at the hotel. Rooming with friends is pretty fun!
 
 
The cost of the trip is subsidized by the Bready-Lapides Eighth Grade Educational Trip Fund and the Class of 2003 Museum Admissions Fund.
 
 
 

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