Feature Stories

During the first six months of 2011, Museum Without Walls partnered with three Seattle-area churches (Bethany Presbyterian, Emerald City Bible Fellowship, and Japanese Presbyterian) to provide middle and high school youth group students with three training days on the history of Seattle, issues of racism, and the civil rights movement. The Saturday events were in preparation for a joint youth group mission trip serving Seattle ministries.

On a cloudy spring day in March, over 40 middle and high school students from three Seattle churches (Emerald City Bible Fellowship, Bethany Presbyterian, and Japanese Presbyterian) gathered at Japanese Presbyterian Church to spend a day learning about the internment of over 100,000 people of Japanese descent along the Pacific coast after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

On a chilly Seattle Saturday in January, they came through the doors, two or three at a time, wrote name tags and found a place in the circle.

Mercer Island School District highlighted the 4th annual Multicultural Scholars Program in E-Connections, its district-wide newsletter.

Hope and History: Reflections on the 4th Annual Multicultural Scholars Program is a compilation of observations from student participants traveling throughout the American South on the 10-day journey.

Museum Without Walls was very sad to learn of the death of Civil Rights icon, Johnnie Carr. Mrs. Carr had been a fixture in our American Civil Rights history programs for almost four years.