You know you are doing something right when 500 students give a standing ovation for a film. Overall, the best film I’ve ever seen! Inspirational. Fantastic! … a cinematic masterpiece! Don’t blink while watching this film. You don’t want to miss a …
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After the conference is over in Florida, Ayanna and I hop on a plane and fly to New York. We have school presentations in Brockport and in Rochester. Each time we give our presentation, the kids go crazy. Rockport gave a standing ovation after the film finished! How often does that happen? They did …
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Joyce Henderson, Bill Clifford (my father) and I present to teachers arcoss the state at the Oklahoma Council for Social Studies Conference. Teachers love meeting some of the original sit-inners, taking their lunch hour to ask more questions from those who lived the experience.
At the Universisty of Central Oklahoma in Edmond OK, “Children of the Civil Rights” screening is followed by a lively panel discussion. Thanks to Meshawn Conley from the diversity department, Edmond city councilman Darrell Davis for MC’ing, the students and President Don Betz for giving the film director and panelist such a warm welcome! …
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Rochester High School celebrates PEACE DAY. They have activities all throughout the day. This one is particularly poingnent. The whole school participates, including the school superintendent – the african american woman in royal blue shirt below. During this exercise, everyone remains silent the whole time as question are presented over the loud speaker, questions like: …
The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation paid our speaking fees so we could screen Children of the Civil Rights and have a panel discussion with some of the original sit-inners featured in the film. The presentation went great and at the end, I was pleasantly surprised to meet Mr. Lari, the teacher who …
It was a great pleasure meeting the State Superintendent Joy Hoffmeister. She has a tough job as Oklahoma cut budgets last year around 25%, then again this year for another 25% across the board. I don’t envy her position. All the best Joy Hofmeister!
I AM THRILLED! The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, the Anne and Henry Zarrow foundation and the George Kaiser Family Foundation are joining together with Circle Cinema to fund Tulsa Public School screenings and panel presentations! A special thank you to three foundations and to their immediate staff helping us put this …
It took five days giving a morning and and afternoon presentation each day but we shared the film with 2200 ninth graders from Tulsa Public Schools! It was fantastic! Superintendent Deborah Gist introduced the series to Tulsa Public School students. The kids respond so well to Congressman John Lewis’s words of wisdom. …
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Thanks to Vaughn Hagen, CPA … We present at Millwood Public Schools in Oklahoma City. Afterwords, the school showed “Children of the Civil Rights” to their students in classrooms. We captured a few of the students responses and put them on YouTube! Check it out!
