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Mary Washington freshman Christopher Jesus wept when he read it. An African-American boy, barely a teen, sentenced to death for a crime he didn\u2019t commit, pled for help to overturn his conviction. At the bottom of the white piece of paper, he\u2019d drawn a picture of himself in black ink.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was powerful,\u201d Jesus said of the letter. \u201cIt broke me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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UMW students who joined the first-ever Fall Break Social Justice trip to Alabama stand in front of the Legacy Museum in Montgomery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On view at the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama, it was among the sights that moved UMW students on a Social Justice Fall Break trip to explore the still-churning saga of civil rights in America. Being there \u2013 standing where \u201censlaved people were warehoused,\u201d seeing the soil from where thousands of men, women and children were lynched \u2013 made an impact like no textbook could.<\/p>\n

It made them mad. Made them sad. Made them sick, the students said. But in the end, it made them want to stand up and make a difference \u2013 in the world and at Mary Washington.<\/p>\n

Participants \u2013 19 students and three administrators \u2013 recapped their often \u201cgut-wrenching\u201d encounters during a private audience with Mary Washington President Troy Paino Monday. They\u2019ll tell their stories again at the UMW Board of Visitors meeting on Friday.<\/p>\n

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Nineteen students and three UMW administrators traveled to Montgomery, Alabama, to explore the civil rights struggle in America. The experience, they said, left them disturbed, but also emboldened to make change. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
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UMW student Brianna Reaves reads a sign that tells of repeated lynchings in Selma, Alabama, which took place well into the 20th century. Thousands of African-American men, women and children were lynched across the country. <\/div> <\/div>
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The UMW group also visited the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Construction began on the memorial in 2010, when the Equal Justice Initiative started investigating thousands of racial terror lynchings in the American South. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s important not only for me \u2026 \u201d Paino said, \u201cbut for the faculty and for the entire administration to hear about your experiences and your perspectives.\u201d<\/p>\n

The trek through Montgomery and Selma, Alabama, brought abrupt and painful truths about slavery, segregation, race and injustice to the students that went beyond what they\u2019d been taught in their high school history classes. Its horrific brutality, pervasiveness beyond the American South, and persistence through poverty and mass incarceration reinforced their prior perceptions and often surprised them.<\/p>\n

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UMW students sit inside the Legacy Museum in Montgomery. Behind them are jars filled with soil from the ground where African-Americans were lynched throughout the country.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Freshman Brianna Reaves called the trip, sponsored in part by the James Farmer Multicultural Center (JFMC), a \u201crevelation.\u201d \u201cThere\u2019s still work to do,\u201d she said, vowing to help ensure her children won\u2019t experience the world her ancestors did.<\/p>\n

JFMC Assistant Director Chris Williams began planning the trek in May \u2013 an extension of Mary Washington\u2019s second annual Social Justice and Leadership Summit in March \u2013 after watching Oprah Winfrey\u2019s 60 Minutes\u00a0<\/em>report on the Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened in April. The memorial and museum, both among last month\u2019s stops, are administered by the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a team of lawyers dedicated to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States.<\/p>\n

The UMW group also visited the EJI office and Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, and crossed the infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge, site of the brutal 1965 \u201cBloody Sunday\u201d police attack against civil rights demonstrators.<\/p>\n

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UMW students begin the emotional trek arcoss the Edmund Pettus Bridge, site of the brutal 1965 Bloody Sunday police attack against civil rights protestors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI tried my best not to cry,\u201d said senior Sherronda Robinson. \u201cIt was such a powerful experience. I almost felt like the weight of my ancestors was on my shoulders.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to the JFMC, the trip was sponsored by the African, Black and Latino student associations, and the offices of the President and Student Involvement, as well as an anonymous donor.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to really get them to see why social justice is still an issue in this country,\u201d Williams said. \u201cYou can only do that by taking them on a tour of history that might be uncomfortable, but it\u2019s necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

JFMC Director of Multicultural Affairs Marion Sanford said they hope to offer this type of excursion annually to give UMW students an opportunity to travel, learn more about the aspects of history and social justice that affect our society, and become agents of social change.<\/p>\n

The first annual event sparked conversation on the unequal treatment African-Americans faced in the past and still face today, but it went further. The students plan to take action, they said, from talking to parents and peers, and registering to vote, to joining and forming action groups, like the NAACP chapter on the horizon at Mary Washington.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat wasn\u2019t just our Fall Break trip to Alabama,\u201d junior Kelsey Chavers said. \u201cWe\u2019re still thinking of it as a movement, about what we can do to keep it going.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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