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| Teanna Lee of St. Helena College & Career Academy and Lamarquez Walls of Kentwood High Magnet School lead a chant during the One Flag for All March on Oct. 11 in Jackson, MS. |
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| Standing from left on the steps of the Mississippi State Capitol during a rally following the One Flag for All March are, South Carolina State Rep. Jenny Horne, Civil Rights Activist Myrlie Evers-Williams, Former SU SGA President & Rapper David Banner and Sharron Brown. |
Baton Rouge, La. – Students
from Kentwood High Magnet School and St. Helena College & Career Academy,
along with Southern University Ag Center’s Assistant Area Agent Nicolette
Gordon, Youth Coordinator Toni Melton, and St. Helena College & Career
Academy’s Civics teacher Idella Smith, traveled to Jackson, Mississippi on
October 11 to participate in the One Flag for All Mississippians March and
Rally.
The 20 students were
engaged during their Civics classes on the importance of letting their voices
be heard, and the many ways they can get involved to do so. This sparked their interest in participating
in the history making event.
The march and rally were organized
by local leaders across the United States and was led by South Carolina State Representative
Jenny Horne, Rapper & Former Southern University SGA President David
Banner, and Civil rights activist Myrlie Evers-Williams, to show support of Initiative 55, which calls for the removal
of the Confederate battle emblem from the State of Mississippi’s Flag.
The march began at the
intersection of J.R. Lynch and Rose Street and ended at the steps on the south
side of the Mississippi State Capitol, where the rally lasted from 3:40 p.m. to
5 p.m.
“We
shouldn’t have a flag that represents a bad time in our history,” says Sharron
Brown, who proposed Initiative 55. Brown is also starting to
collect signatures for the initiative, and she’s hoping to see it on the state’s
ballot in 2018.
(Article written by Nicolette Gordon,
Assistant Area Agent at the SU Ag Center.)
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