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Does every community have a legacy? Ours does. LaVilla School of the Arts' students have been investigating the history of LaVilla through informal interviews with people who remember the past. Questions were asked about growing up in Jacksonville, Florida, the Civil Rights Movement, and what the LaVilla community was like in years gone by. In order to build background knowledge, students watched the movies, The Children's March, which explained how the children changed the world in May of 1963 in Birmingham, and The Long Walk Home, starring Whoopi Goldberg and Sissy Spacek, which is a story about the Montgomery Bus Boycott. These movies and class discussions helped students look honestly at racial tensions in our society during the 50s and 60s. Students began to look forward to talking with people who witnessed the struggle for integration in our community. After the young journalists listened to oral histories with senior citizens in our community, their assignment was to write a web page with notes gathered from interviews at the Ritz Theatre along with Internet research. Note: These sites were researched and written by students age 12 and 13. Corrections and revisions continue and your suggestions are welcome. E-mail your thoughts to our webmaster. |
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