The Chicago Project

The Participants

Front Row (Left to Right) Morgan Hall, Christi Dalton, Lauren McIntosh, Katrina Hammaker, Jessica Shields, Nikki Melvin, Cayla Miller, Hanorah Campbell, Back Row (Left to Right) Andrew Choate, Daniel King, Keith Sams, Andrew Quirk, Seth Caskey, Ben Davis, Jason Rosell, Teaonno Gaines

In the Classroom

Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

Students in the course met twice per week after school for seven months. We also devoted three Saturday nights in eight hour “marathon sessions” to learn about the Civil Rights Movement using the video series “Eyes on the Prize”. Topics included the history of Black images in American culture, Jim Crow, and lynching as domestic terrorism. We learned how through the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the student movement, and grassroots social protests, America was throwing off the last vestiges of legal public institutional discrimination.

This year we had the first annual “Chicago Project Hallway Olympics!” We created and participated in twelve different events that we competed in during the last Saturday night of the series. We participated in the games as a team making them educational, entertaining, and helped us to bond together as a group. In this picture, students are competing in a water-chugging contest!

MLK Day March

On an unusually mild January morning, three students gave up their day off school to come to Dayton to participate in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day march. We started North of town and met up with groups coming from all parts of the city. Over 10,000 marchers met at fountain square united in spirit to move our communities forward.