by Life in a Jar | May 26, 2014 | Diversity Projects
In 2001, four students at Uniontown High School produced a documentary film that dealt with diversity and American music. Megan Stewart, Liz Cambers, Dallas Ripper and Sabrina Coons completed research on the life of pioneer blues singer, Huddie Ledbetter. This...
by Life in a Jar | May 26, 2014 | Diversity Projects
Joanna Fewins was an 8th grade student at Uniontown when she developed a documentary film on the life of Gordon Parks. She featured his beginning in local Fort Scott and his career as a world-renowned photographer and filmmaker. Joanna contacted Mr. Parks, and he...
by Life in a Jar | May 26, 2014 | Diversity Projects
In 2002, four students at Uniontown High School developed an exhibit on Corinthian Nutter. Miss Nutter was a teacher at an African-American school in the late 1940s, in the Mission school district. This district is a suburb of Kansas City on the Kansas side. Miss...
by Life in a Jar | May 26, 2014 | Diversity Projects
The Lowell Milken Center has also created a teacher/classroom study guide to accompany the DVD of the play. The Center offers many ideas and opportunities for classroom projects and development of unsung hero topics. POLAND Sixty-four Polish schools are working on...
by Life in a Jar | May 8, 2014 | The Irena Sendler Family & Cast
Irena Sendler, born in 1910, in Warsaw, Poland, was raised by her parents to respect and love people regardless of their ethnicity or social status. She grew up in the town of Otwock, Poland. Her father, a physician, died from typhus that he contracted during an...