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Class of 2011Class of 20092OO4Johnnie Carr, friend of Rosa Parks and successorof Martin Lu<strong>the</strong>r King, Jr. and <strong>the</strong> President of<strong>the</strong> Montgomery Improvement Association,leads students in a workshop.Students meet with Charles Black, leader of<strong>the</strong> Atlanta Student Movement.2OO5While at Spelman College, students meet with<strong>the</strong> school’s President Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum.Humanities teacher Lynn Bowman presents<strong>the</strong> trip at <strong>the</strong> National Association ofIndependent <strong>School</strong>s National Conference.Class of 2011Class of 2011Class of 20072OO7Joanne Bland, one of <strong>the</strong> youngest marcherson Bloody Sunday was featured on <strong>the</strong> frontpage of <strong>the</strong> New York Times alongside BarackObama, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton on<strong>the</strong> streets of Selma, Alabama just three weeksafter <strong>the</strong> Class of 2007 stood in that same spot.2OO8Students produced a video documentary onkey cities in <strong>the</strong> civil rights movement using<strong>the</strong> Ken Burns words-and-still photo approach.2OO9<strong>The</strong> Flavors of <strong>the</strong> South eighth grade finalpresentation is reinvented as an art show,with students responding to <strong>the</strong> trip throughpaintings, collage and sculpture as well as<strong>the</strong> written word.Participants from <strong>the</strong> first trip (in 2002) enter<strong>the</strong>ir senior year in high school. For many,<strong>the</strong> memories of <strong>the</strong> trip will play a part in <strong>the</strong>process of college interviews and applications.2OO6Students identify <strong>the</strong>mselves as participants inan ongoing struggle for justice by adding <strong>the</strong>irnames to <strong>the</strong> new Wall of Tolerance at <strong>the</strong>Sou<strong>the</strong>rn Poverty Law Center.Students meet with <strong>the</strong> legal teams behind <strong>the</strong>Bobby Frank Cherry case that <strong>Gordon</strong> studentswitnessed on <strong>the</strong> 2002 trip.Class of 20112O1O<strong>The</strong> stop at Spelman College includes a visitwith Spelman freshman Alix Bowman ’05.Joanne Bland, Selma activist and participantin <strong>the</strong> Bloody Sunday march, comes to <strong>Gordon</strong>to serve as Commencement speaker.2O11<strong>The</strong> group meets with students andadministrators at Atlanta Charter Middle<strong>School</strong>, co-founded by Pulitzer Prize winnerDouglas Blackmon, who had spoken at <strong>Gordon</strong>in April 2010.Class of 20115