1. How might looking at the stories of the history of our city or community help you understand the present better?
We all need to make decisions about the present about understanding what happened in the past. Critical thinking skills help us think about what happened and to sharpen awareness on what happened to what could happen, or what we want to not see happen again.
Personally, I worked in Buffalo right next to the Michigan street Baptist Church which this area was the LAST stop on the underground railroad. This is interesting to begin with, but given that it is literally right next to my work for a decade and a half I could not help but feel the history. There are many prominent civil rights leaders that did much of their work here in the Buffalo Region, Mary Talbert for one. This local history is important, and those local connections can make richer connections to those that live here and get them more involved in the march for equality and other historical events.
We all need to make decisions about the present about understanding what happened in the past. Critical thinking skills help us think about what happened and to sharpen awareness on what happened to what could happen, or what we want to not see happen again.
Personally, I worked in Buffalo right next to the Michigan street Baptist Church which this area was the LAST stop on the underground railroad. This is interesting to begin with, but given that it is literally right next to my work for a decade and a half I could not help but feel the history. There are many prominent civil rights leaders that did much of their work here in the Buffalo Region, Mary Talbert for one. This local history is important, and those local connections can make richer connections to those that live here and get them more involved in the march for equality and other historical events.