The Daily Bulletin Archive

Associate professors Amitra Wall, Sociology, and Joe Marren, Communication, and eight students from various Buffalo State departments participated in Sojourn to the Past’s 10-day Civil Rights Educational Project from January 8 to 17. The experiential journey featured sites in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Among the visited sites were Dr. King’s gravesite and the King Center in Atlanta; the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama; the 16th Street Baptist Church and National Civil Rights Museum in Birmingham, Alabama; Medgar Evers’s home in Jackson, Mississippi; and Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, where the group heard from two members of the Little Rock Nine, who shared their wisdom and bravery. Participating students were Guyshana Alston, Aminata Camara, Taja Cox, Travis Grodin, April Johnson, Devone Moore, Sametra Toe, and Nese Yazicilar. For more information on the schedule, visit www.sojournproject.org. The 2009 trip was the first of what is hoped to be an annual event. For information on a possible trip in January 2010, contact Wall or Marren.