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July 31, 2003 - Archives "One of the most moving and disturbing pictures was of the gravestone of a lady named Viola Luzzio that had been defaced, with a spray painted confederate flag. Images like that seemed to negate the other positive pictures around it, of such people as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, III. As each day passes, we move farther into the South, and the stories we hear from the people we meet become increasingly intense." <Read All> "The
only way we will grow and be able to look forward is if we step
out of comfort zones – as this trip is providing us the
opportunity to do. It is vital to understand what our parents
and grandparents had to go through for us to be able to have the
rights that we do today, but my goal now is to be able to detach
myself enough so that I do not dwell on the past, but look forward
to what I can do in the future." <Read All> |
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