The Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkeley, Calif., has received funding from the Robert Sillins Family Foundation to assist in the development of the Plessy Civil Rights Park in New Orleans. The project will be built over 2005-2006. CDS creating a community/high school partnership in developing media assets. They will also be working with Canada’s Murmur project on a cell-phone-based tour of the outdoor park. The focus is the site where, in 1896, Homer Plessy stepped on a train to challenge segregation. The loss of his trial, Plessy vs. Ferguson, in the Supreme Court, became the legal justification for segregation for half of a century. The CDS Web site blog has more news about their fast-developing projects and partnerships. [LINK] Posted by Linda Frye Burnham