Carl Thach and Steve Pickering

"Voices of Our Past: Documenting the Stories of Segregated Schools in Jackson, Mississippi" is the winning program developed by Thach and Pickering. They are introducing students at New Summit School to an innovative method to preserve history. Oral history, a research tool used to collect interviews and storytelling, will allow students to capture the emotion and perspective of the speaker. Students will learn more about their local history while developing social skills and critical thinking abilities. Thach and Pickering find the topic very intriguing considering Mississippi schools were integrated in 1970; 16 years after the unprecedented Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education. The documentary will be presented to the student body and members of the Mississippi Historical Society.