Weakley Co. students get real-world experience through Summer Scholars program
KAREN CAMPBELL
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School districts across the state were given the task of figuring out how to make up for learning loss because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Weakley County Schools celebrated this week the end of their installation of that program.
They called it Summer Scholars, and while it accomplished the goal of helping students make up some of what they may have lost due to obstacles to learning since schools were initially shut down from in-person learning in March of 2020, students also were able to have hands-on learning experience to learn lessons and skills that’ll help them when they’re an adult.
The Birmingham Times
Birmingham’s Linn Park, from the now defunct City Stages music festival to the recently removed Confederate monument, has seen its share of city history.
The seven-acre park that separates Birmingham City Hall and the Jefferson County Courthouse in downtown also may also have been the site of the county’s first lynching, according to a local grass-roots coalition that documents racial terror.
The Jefferson County Memorial Project (JCMP), composed of over 40 community partners, researches the untold history of lynching in the county and the historical links among slavery, Jim Crow and present-day mass incarceration.
Their latest report, “Contested Terrain: A Historical Walk Through Birmingham’s Linn Park” was written by JCMP Fellows, a group of 20 college and graduate students from Birmingham-area colleges: Jefferson State Community College, Samford University, Birmingham-Southern College and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).