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May 12, 2008

Student Digital Legacies Project Now Online

legacies.jpg Documentary films by Boston Public School students about the civil-rights history of their city are posted on the Web site of the Digital Legacies Project. In 2007, staff from Facing History and Ourselves facilitated a four-week digital filmmaking program in Boston, during which ten high-school students learned research, writing, interviewing, video production and dialogue while creating films featuring interviews with local civil-rights leaders. Now online, the films and their subjects are: "For Roxbury," with Sarah-Ann Shaw, the first African-American female reporter for WBZ-TV in Boston; "Our Destiny," with political activist, author and professor Mel King; "The Struggle for a Good Education," with Jean McGuire, executive director of the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity, Inc.; and "The Makings of a Leader," with civil-rights activist and professor James Breeden. The student films have been incorporated into the Boston Public Schools' tenth-grade civil-rights curriculum. [LINK]

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