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A Trip Through the Civil Rights Movement

After spending the winter researching and learning about the history of the civil rights struggle in the United States, the third grade welcomed students, faculty, family, and friends to the Klein Lyceum on Thursday, February 27 for a performance of Blast Back: A Trip Through the Civil Rights Movement. Through this choral reading, students highlighted major milestones in the campaign for civil rights. The Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Greensboro Sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, the Children's Crusade, and the March on Washington each provided perspective on just how difficult it was for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to be passed.

Third graders also sang protest songs from the era including Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around, We Shall Overcome, If I Had a Hammer, Welcome Table, and People Get Ready. While the students quoted Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have a Dream speech, they noted that as long as there are those who still suffer under injustice in this world, his dream has not yet been fully realized. They left the audience with the question "What will you do to make his dream a reality?" 

See the performance here.