Ronetta Jenkins is a summer intern for West Wind Education Policy. She will be a Junior this fall at Iowa City High. This is part 2 of a 2-part blog. Continue reading “Civil Rights Movement Tour Part 2”

Ronetta Jenkins is a summer intern for West Wind Education Policy. She will be a Junior this fall at Iowa City High. This is part 1 of a 2 part blog.

Starting my journey off on June 8^th to go back down south I thought to myself, why am I going again? I feel like I know it all already after going on this trip for the 4^th time. I didn’t know enough. The day I left and I arrived at the first stop in Memphis, Tennessee I remember why I wanted to do this again. There’s no such thing as learning to much, but there’s a thing as not learning enough. This trip wasn’t just for experience; it was a chance to be put back in the past and relive the moments just by stepping in the places of these heroes who made change. Continue reading “Civil Rights Movement Tour”