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Music and Movements

8th grade:
The grade's leadership group reached out to Matthew Whittaker '04, inviting him to speak with the full grade in advance of their week-long trip to Alabama next month. Matthew talked about his favorite musicians and how music of the 1950s and 1960s played a role in the Civil Rights Movement in America.
11th grade:
AP US History met up on a Saturday, January 25, at Georgetown University's Lauinger Library, which houses humanities, social sciences and business material. In the latter half of the year, students write a social justice movement paper, critiquing the decisions and approaches of a movement and drawing on both primary sources and research by historians. A visit to a collegiate library is one requirement of the project.
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