Sojourn Students have…

  • Participants in Teach the Truth rallies (2021)
  • Black history lessons/activities provided for students via zoom during the Covid Pandemic (2021)
  • Antiracism workshop presented to YCS staff, M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston, local school administrators and numerous other groups (2020-present)
  • Students researched/wrote “Antiracism: Be a Difference Maker” workshop (2020)
  • Black Lives Matter Resolution presented to and approved by the CEO of YCS (2020)
  • Vigil for two Black men murdered by law officials in Columbus (2020)
  • Vigil in memory of John Lewis (2020)
  • Rally for justice in memory of George Floyd (2020)
  • Civil Rights mural in Selma commissioned /dedicated (2020)
  • Remembrance service held at the lynching site of William Taylor in Sandusky (2019)
  • Students participated in March for Our Lives in D.C. (2018)
  • Student walk-outs in memory of students killed in Parkland, Fl (2018)
  • Coretta Scott King A.N.G.L.E. Peace Award given to Sojourn to the Past, recognizing work of Youngstown Sojourn (2016)
  • General Assembly passed Ohio Nonviolence Week bill (2013)
  • Congressman John Lewis spoke to high school students (2010)
  • First Annual Nonviolence Parade and Rally (2011)
  • Youngstown schools, Youngstown City Council, YSU and Mahoning County made the first week in October Nonviolence Week (2010)
  • Nonviolence Week created in Youngstown schools (2009)
  • Voter registration and voter education in high schools and YSU (2008 – present)

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