2008 Woodie Awards
The Civil Rights movement is something that is taught in nearly every history class beginning in elementary school. Though children are taught about famous civil rights events and activists, they may not understand why the Civil Rights Movement was so important.
Myra Rachal, 59, a special education teacher at Hattiesburg High School, has known for 27 years what readers of Kiplinger Personal Finance learned in May: the University of Southern Mississippi makes Hattiesburg a better place to live. Kiplinger, directed at people over 40, placed Hattiesburg in its Top Ten Towns for Grownups in a May 2007 article.
Conversations for Change is a student-run, non-profit organization that works to unite communities through public liberation and provides the initial funding and sturcture for community councils that tackle controversial issues by finding common ground solutions.
