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OUDC Summer Journey
Join our class of young leaders as we stand on the battlegrounds of past struggles in New York and throughout the Deep South.
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OUDC in the News - Thank you to ABC-11′s Nick Gunter for covering OUDC Class 21′s visit to Meridian, MS.
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We must dramatize the issue.
Freedom Rider/Sit In Leader Dr. Rip Patton to OUDC Class 21 at their final stop in Nashville
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As we stand in the spot where the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, we remember the values for which he lived. We pledge to march onward. (Red and White Wreath marks the exact location where Rev. Dr. King was assassinated, outside of room 306.)
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OUDC Class 21 reads the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final speech, spoken a day before his death. "We, as a people, will get to the promised land!"
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Heroes are just ordinary people whom we call by another name.
Rabbi Micah, Temple Israel Memphis, to OUDC Class 21
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OUDC Class 21 reflects at the courthouse where Emmett Till's killers were acquitted, an injustice that sparked a movement.
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OUDC in the News - OUDC Class 21 students shared their stories with Mississippi Public Broadcasting. Check it out!
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You all being here together, that's a big blow to racism. Keep doing what you're doing.
Mississippi State Senator David Jordan to OUDC Class 21
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OUDC Class 21 visits the Sunflower County Freedom Project to learn about efforts to enrich education in the Mississippi Delta.
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We have a huge gap in opportunity for everyone, especially in education.
Former Mississippi Governor William Winter to OUDC Class 21
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Thank you to the International Museum of Muslim Cultures in Jackson, MS for hosting a meaningful Jumuah service with OUDC Class 21!
#oudc#oudc21#oudc summer journey#international museum of muslim cultures#immc#muslim museum#jumuah#ramadan
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Student leaders from OUDC Class 21 shared their story with the Jackson, MS community at Koinonia Coffeehouse.
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When you mobilize, you are reacting. When you organize, others have to react to you.
Hollis Watson, Tougaloo College, to OUDC Class 21
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"We make sure that diminishing communities do not feel diminished in spirit."
OUDC Class 21 visits the Institute for Southern Jewish Life in Jackson, MS.
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To those with the courage to imagine a better world and the vision to ceaselessly pursue it: we will continue the march.
OUDC Class 21 crosses the Edmund Pettus Bridge, 50 years later.
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OUDC Class 21 visits the home where Dr. King, Rabbi Heschel, and others stayed to plan and execute the Selma campaign. One participant’s shirt makes it clear: the fight for voting rights is not over, and we will continue to stand up.
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"How long? Not long. Because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."
OUDC Class 21 reads Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s words from the conclusion of the Selma to Montgomery March on the exact spot where they were spoken.
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