The Boston Globe Features Facing History's Choosing to Participate Exhibition

Message on Racism Reverberates
Exhibit focuses on personal stories to chronicle events
By Brian R. Ballou
January 31, 2008

Wide-eyed and pensive, five Fenway High School juniors sat in a dark projection room yesterday at the Boston Public Library and listened to a schoolgirl's recorded account about how she faced racism on her way to a new school in Little Rock, Ark., half a century ago. A picture of the schoolgirl beamed on-screen. She wore a white dress and sunglasses and clutched her books as an enraged crowd surrounded her.

"My great-grandmother could have gone through those things, because she was going to school during that time," said Jasmine Taylor, one of the students, pausing outside the projection room before continuing through the exhibit, "Choosing to Participate, Facing History and Ourselves."

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