Thank you to our school communities for your support!

Participants worked hard all this fall raising money to make this trip happen. The Civil Rights Trip requires about $800/person. With the support of our schools, parents, families, friends, and other members of our communities, we achieved our goal of $32,800. (Yay!) But, we always strive to "leave it better than we found it," so we always like to leave some money behind to insure that future trips can also go. (We have another trip coming up as soon as this April.) Please consider making a donation to The Civil Rights Trip and help make this opportunity available to other students in years to come.

Please make checks out to "The Park School of Baltimore Civil Rights Trip" and send them to

Traci Wright, Dean of Students

The Park School of Baltimore

2425 Old Court Road

Baltimore, MD 21208

Our fundraising efforts included leaf raking, car washes, Christmas tree sale, bake sale, pizza sales, Chipotle fundraisers, chili cook-offs, adult happy hours, and writing.

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Education and Desegregation in Little Rock

Little Rock Central High School In addition to visiting Little Rock Central High School and learning about the Little Rock Nine, we had the honor of meeting Dr. Sybil Jordan Hampton. Dr. Hampton grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, and in 1962, five years after integration of the Little Rock Nine, she became the first African American student to complete her entire education at Little Rock Central High School. Students with Dr. Sybil Jordan Hampton

"Sweet Auburn" and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights

Students at Dr. King’s Birth Home in Atlanta In Maryland, if a white woman had a black man's child, no matter what the circumstance, she would go to jail. -Valerie One exhibition that struck me today was the Coretta Scott King and Dr. King timeline in the visitor center of Ebenezer Church. I have learned a lot about Dr. King through the years, but I had never known so much about his wife, who was a very big activist herself, not just for civil rights, but for women’s rights. I liked that each of their timelines were on their own side if the room: it is important to remember Dr. King and Mrs. King for their own legacies, as well as together. This ability to see both of their timelines separately and together is what made this room extremely interesting. We also got to attend church today and I would like to conclude with one phrase that I remembered during the Pastor’s sermon: “If your neighbor gets blessed, don’t be jealous. It just means God is in the neighborhood” -A...

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Welcome to the Civil Rights Trip January 2020 Blog! Visit again and read along as students from The Park School of Baltimore, Baltimore City College, City Neighbors High School write about their Civil Rights Trip experience.

Civil Rights Trip January 2020

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