Students Visit Historic Sites on Winter Civil Rights Trip
This month, Upper School students and faculty from Park School and Baltimore City College High School embarked on the annual Civil Rights Trip. The group travels together through the American south to visit, study, and engage with people and places that were — and are — important to the Civil Rights Movement.
The week included a visit to The Legacy Sites in Montgomery, AL, where the Equal Justice Initiative explores the connection between slavery and mass incarceration, and a walk over the Edmund Pettus Bridge to pay homage to those who marched on Bloody Sunday. Participants met with Kenneth and Victor Blackledge (grandfather and granduncle of Karsyn Blackledge ’26) and heard stories about their connection to and participation in the Children’s Crusade in Birmingham in 1963. In Atlanta, participants heard a sermon delivered by Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock, and they ended the week speaking with the ever-hopeful Dr. Sybil Jordan Hampton, who was part of the integration of Little Rock Central High School.
To read the ideas, thoughts, and reflections from throughout the trip, visit their blog: https://sites.google.com/parkschool.net/baltimore-crt-dec-2025
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