Resurrecting Their Stories – Selma – The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project

On March 3, 2018, the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project hosted its third event in the three-part symposium "Resurrecting Their Stories" in Selma, Alabama.

Held at the Selma Center for Nonviolence, Truth and Reconciliation, CRRJ co-hosted alongside The Elmore Bolling Foundation and the Alabama Chapter of the NAACP. The focus of this event was on the process of gathering oral history accounts of racial violence and distilling them into high school curricula, to ensure that younger generations can contextualize injustices that remain pervasive today and that these stories are never forgotten.

Central to the event were two groundbreaking high school initiatives. Stuart Wexler, of Hightstown High School, NJ, has directed three dozen students to draft the Civil Rights Cold Case Record Collections Act of 2017 , to date pending in Congress (HR 1272). Kathleen FitzGerald, of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, MA, leads the Kimbrough Scholars Program , which performs investigative fieldwork in partnership with CRRJ.

Josephine Bolling McColl of The Elmore Bolling Foundation presented on efforts to preserve the historic Lowndesboro School building, which has remained standing since 1883. Attendees also heard testimony from the family of Della McDuffie , whose story previously featured in CRRJ's award winning film The Trouble I've Seen, and relatives of Timothy Hood and Rayfield Davis.

In the below show-reel, visitors will find photographs from the day.