In Fall 2013, McComb Legacies teacher Falana McDaniel was awarded the Martha Ross Teaching Award from the Oral History Association for her efforts to bring civil rights oral history into the classrooms of McComb High School in Mississippi.
McComb Legacies is a youth leadership program that provides middle and high school youth with the opportunity to learn about, document, and share their local civil rights movement and labor history. Participants also use the lessons learned from history to examine and take action to improve their world today. McCombLegacies.org is a collaborative effort of the McComb School District and community members of the Local History Advisory Committee who are committed to the research, documentation, and sharing of McComb’s history.
In 2013, McComb Legacies joined the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program on the annual Mississippi Freedom Project Delta research trip, where participants were inspired to create student-led voting rights conference at McComb High School. SPOHP attended the conference and brought a research team conduct oral history interviews in collaboration with McComb Legacies students, and returned later in the year on the 2014 annual trip to continue local work.
Read about Ms. McDaniel and at McComb Legacies Project blog, “Congratulations to Falana McDaniel and the Samuel Proctor Program,” October 10, 2013. Photo courtesy of Lisa Serrano.
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