Segment 1: Community members recall memories of switching schools after riots following Martin Luther King Jr's assassination.
After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, two local catholic high schools, one serving a primarily white community and the other serving a primarily black community, held a year-long student exchange program. Today, we speak with a few individuals who participated in the exchange as students and discuss the profound effect it had on their lives.
- Debora Demeter
- Mike Damico
Segment 2, beginning at 32:04: local students return from civil rights tour of the south.
Local students of University Academy, a charter school with mostly black students, and Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy, a private Jewish school, discuss their experience visiting civil rights landmarks in the southern United States.
- Todd Clauer, Upper School principal, Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy
- Safiya Maxwell, student, University Academy
- Gavi Glickman, student, Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy