Speech /Drama Class Project Include Visits to Museums

The Jacksonville Middle School for Boys Speech/Drama class will begin working on a class project that surrounds the long struggle of the Little Rock Nine. Each student in the class will conduct a character analysis of a key person that impacted the Central High Crisis. Students will present their research during an exhibit titled, "Then and Now: In the Eyes of the Boys" on May 15, 2008. The class will take field trips to two museums. The purpose of the museum visits are for students to get an "up close and personal" perspective of the Civil Rights Movement.  Funding for this project was provided from a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council and the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation.

National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee (March 22, 2008)
Central High National Historic Site in Little Rock, AR (April 5, 2008)