"EDUCATION ON WHEELS" Project, 2009
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Angela Hughes
Filipino & Black
Advertising
Graduation: May, 2009
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My Civil Rights
Understanding:
"The
civil rights movement of the
1960s was the driving force behind
change in our country in terms of
rights for
African Americans, Women
and Worker's rights. Today, I don't
feel that there are any
civil rights issues
today. I think that the struggle
lies within the mindset of many
people.
The stereotypes and prejudices that
many of us have, have triggered
the discrimination of not only
ethnic groups but of
religious groups and
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Bianca DeCastro
Multi-ethnic: Spanish/Filipino
Japanese/Hawaiian/Italian
Magazine Journalism
Graduation: May, 2009
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My Civil Rights
Understanding:
"My grandfather was a WWII veteran
and he told me stories of how he saw
blacks
being treated terribly when he lived in
Mississippi for training
camp. During that
time blacks were not able to vote
and segregation still prevailed.
It is my opinion the election of the first black president is a great
victory for many races and cultures;
however, I do believe that this is
truly a victory for African
Americans. The
Civil Rights Movement
cultivated
great leaders like Dr. King
and
led to the eventual annihilation of
Jim Crow laws, the passage of
the
civil rights and voting acts."
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Carlos Moreno
Mexican-American and
mixed Spanish Heritage
English & Spanish fluent
Photojournalism
Graduation: December, 2009 |
My Civil Rights
Understanding:
"The Civil Rights movement was a
turbulent time for all races,
especially African-Americans in the
South. The movement was brought
center
stage when men like Malcolm X and
Martin Luther King Jr. lead the way
in
defining race relations and equality
for the black man.
Cesar Chavez was also another
activist who sought respect and
equality for
hired hands in the fields. What does
all this have to do with the
Inauguration? EVERYTHING.
These men are stepping stones of why
people like me were able to vote
for president that reflects the true
America of today." |
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Jade
Atkins-Nikolaou
Black,
Creole and Greek
Radio/TV Journalism
Graduation: December, 2009
Biography |
My Civil Rights
Understanding:
"My knowledge of the horrors that
happened in the south is not limited
and my
feelings towards them are hostile
and angry ones. In my family, as
children we
are often told of the many people
who sacrificed in our family
generations
before us. We are often told of the
horrors of the south, and how while
they might seem tame, they are far
from dead and gone. Stories of
Emmit Till and Medger
Evers, are often stories that come
to mind when I think of civil
rights. I even think
of
Ernie Davis, who won the
Heisman Trophy and was the
first
African American to do so
during the time of all the
civil rights movement."
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Justin Allegri
Italian
Spanish & Sign Language
Conversant
Radio/TV Journalism
Graduation: May, 2010
Biography |
My Civil Rights
Understanding:
"There was a race of people who for
hundreds of years took beatings and
were given orders and then finally
they said that is enough. No moment
in history can compare to that. As
for the historic dates, the Supreme
Court ruling that segregation in
public schools is unconstitutional,
that was Brown vs. The Board of
Education in Kansas. Rosa Parks made
her stand on the bus in Alabama. She
was told to move to the back of the
bus with the other African Americans
but she refused. There was the
murder
of a young African boy for
commenting on the way a white woman
looked. Police
use fire hoses and police dogs to
attack demonstrators in
Alabama."
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Kachet
Jackson-Henderson
Black
Public Relations
Graduation: May, 2010 |
My Civil Rights
Understanding:
" I think I was about four years old
when my mother gave me little bits
of the
history of 'our people.' In high
school, I wrote an article for the
school newspaper
(in Sacramento) about the 50th
anniversary of
Brown V. Board of Education...
I have written term papers on
the N word, and also the CRM, as a
timeline of key events, starting
from the beginning of
Jim Crow, and ending in 1968,
with Smith/Carlos' protest, and the
assassination of Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. I did not fail to
highlight some events that are not
as 'popular' as those, including the
Little Rock Nine, Woolworth
sit-in's in Greensboro, James
Meredith's admission to Ole Miss.
People UNITED and FOUGHT for a
CHANGE and did not give up in the
quest for the 'promised land.' "
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Derek
Sijder
Dutch-Indonesian
& Costa Rican.
Spanish &
French
Language Skills
Photojournalism
Graduation: December, 2009 |
My Civil Rights
Understanding:
" ...Martin
Luther King Jr. Whenever I
hear his voice and ideas...he has
all the qualities a great leader
should have: intelligence,
integrity, perseverance, courage,
and humility. I look at the
Civil Rights Movement from
the view of the common man. There
were so many people who had the
courage to stand up for what is
right in a time of tension and
injustice. From those who marched
from Selma, not once but three
times, to the individuals who
boycotted the buses in Montgomery.
The mother
of
Emmett Till did something
that most mother's would not have
done if their son
was killed in such a tragic way. She
insisted that the photograph be
published so that others could see
the atrocity that her son suffered."
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Justin Perry
African-American
Radio/TV Journalism
Graduation: May, 2009
Biography |
My Civil Rights
Understanding:
"I have a strong understanding of
Lincoln Emancipating the slaves in
1863, to the
Voting Rights Act of 1965
being passed enabling
African Americans to legally
vote,
to
Barack Obama becoming the
44th President, bringing us
one step closer to racial equality
in this nation. I take great pride
in the history of my people and all
the accomplishments we've
contributed to this nation from
inventions as small as John Love's
pencil sharpener to inventions like
Garrett Morgan's traffic light. I
believe that we have come a very
long way, but we still have a ways
to go. Women do not always have
equal rights as men in the corporate
workplace and homosexuals aren't
getting their equal rights, proven
most recently with the passing of
Proposition 8."
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Nick Dovedot
My ethnicity:
German, French, Polish,
Austrian, Irish, & English
Public Relations
Graduation: 2010 |
My Civil Rights
Understanding:
" I am knowledgeable about the
March on Washington,
Martin Luther King Jr.,
Rosa Parks, the
Black Panthers,
Malcolm X, President
Eisenhower, the
Little Rock Nine, the passage
of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964, the
organizing of
voter
registration in the South,
John F. Kennedy and his
administration, and the
Poor People's Campaign. This
information connects with the
inauguration because, specifically,
the 2008 Election was a stepping
stone for voter registration and
voters showing up to cast their
votes and voice, just as was tried
for in the South
during the
Civil Rights Movement. "
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Jenice
Erwin
Black,
Mexican, Spanish
Portuguese &
Native American
Advertising
Graduation: May, 2009
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My Civil Rights
Understanding:
It may have originated in the South
in the 1960's, however the movement
continues to thrive today, as people
in America are still fighting for
justice and
equal rights. Although we have come
a long way from the days of the
Greensboro student sit-ins, the
water hoses and the dogs who
attacked children in
Kelly Ingram Park, the
assassination of
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr,
and "Bloody Sunday" during the march
from
Selma to Montgomery to gain
voting rights, we as a nation still
have a great deal of work to do. The
leaders of the 1960's Civil Rights
Movement may have set the
foundation, but the torch has been
passed to the leaders of today to
make their impression on history.
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These not
for profit educational web pages were
produced by SJSU Journalism Professor Bob
Rucker,
co-organizer of the SJSU "Education on
Wheels" effort to send media students to the
Inauguration. The goal of this educational
project is to provide all students
with a better appreciation of the thinking, efforts and struggles of the
civil rights movement which helped pave the
way for this special moment in American
history.
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