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NYS Photo Archive    
     
2000    
 

NYSLC room at Monroe #1 BOCES Alternative High School, Students working on "New Flavor," a NYSLC student directed publication    With Tommy Brunet Recording a CD at East End Studios
     
     
2001 

Children's Book Project, Industry Residential Center

   
 
     
 
 
     
   
     
     
2004    
 

Jeremy DeGroat NYSLC Recording Engineer at Monroe County Detention Center

 

Recording at Monroe County Detention Center

     
   
CD of Student Writing, Monroe County Detention Center Produced by NYSLC 

Poetry is a language we speak when we write. Here we are citizens of a country called Of Poets. Maya Angelou is queen of our country, and Langston Hughes is the king. Tupac is the prince of our country.
   
     
     
2006    
 

Field Trip to Howard Wilson Coles Archive, Rochester Museum and Science Center for Material on Mildred Johnson with Mildred Johnson's son, Philip Johnson

 

 

Studying Howard Coles Archive with Lea Kemp, Librarian and Archivist

 

     
 

Students with Philip Johnson reading Mildred Johnson's writing published in Howard Wilson Coles' Frederick Douglas Voice

 

 

Howard Wilson Coles Archive, Rochester Museum and Science Center

 

     
 

"Mildred Johnson Speaks" in Howard Wilson Coles' Frederick Douglas Voice

 

 

Placing flowers on Mildred Johnson�s grave. Her gravestone read, �Queen Mother of the Community.� Mildred Johnson believed that that by confronting Rochester�s problems, we might solve them. In 1986, Newsweek magazine listed her among �100 Unsung Heroes� in the nation.

     
 

Gathering around Mildred Johnson's grave

 

 

Rising Up / Speaking Out CD of students' tribute to Mildred Johnson produced by NYSLC

Rising Up / Speaking Out is a truth project. We are sharing the reality of our lives with you. We dedicate this truth project to our inspiration, Mildred Johnson, who fought for kids, for the poor, or all of Rochester's residents, and who spoke the truth to us.

     
     
2007    
The Beat Within

The Beat Within http://www.beatwithin.org/ visited NYSLC's programs at Monroe County and Monroe Correctional Facility

   
 
David Inocencio   Will Roy and David Inocencio