Hudson Valley - Students At Yonkers Montessori School Celebrate
Black History Month With A Moving Presentation And A Q&A With
Smithsonian Expert March 8, 2012 Yonkers, NY, March 8, 2012 -
10th grade Global Studies Group students at Yonkers Montessori
Academy explored the topic of civil rights through a program
offered by Power to Learn and the Smithsonian Channel. Also
participating in the program were Westchester County Board of
Legislators Chairman Ken Jenkins and Christopher Wilson,
Director of African American Culture, National Museum of
American History. The program focused on the students' lessons
on the Greensboro Four, told through the Smithsonian Channel's
original documentary Seizing Justice: The Greensboro Four that
tells the story of four college freshmen from North Carolina A&T
who led a nonviolent sit-in that sparked a series of events that
would help end the Jim Crow laws of the South. View Slide Show
>> Following welcoming remarks by Chairman Jenkins, Principal
Eileen Rivera, Cablevision's Vic