Civil Rights and Social Justice Youth Media Summit
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Channel: South Carolina ETV · 2013 · Education
In collaboration with Write/Right to Change of Clemson University's Strom Thurmond Institute, ETV held an Civil Rights and Social Justice Youth Media Summit on March 1 - 3, 2013. Focusing on digital and social media as a strategy for student engagement, the Summit project was designed to exercise critical thinking and problem-solving skills while helping a group of high school and college students understand their place in history. It has been more than 50 years since the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and '60s began, and the leaders of that movement will not be with us forever. The Summit addressed the urgent need to gather the oral histories of civil rights activists and share them with young people. More than 40 veterans of the movement were interviewed by high school students from Scott's Branch High School, A.C. Flora High School and C.A. Johnson High School. Each student team was assisted by mass communications students from Benedict College. Funding was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Black Programming Consortium, the Lipscomb Family Foundation, Write/Right to Change.
