1. "Two-four-six-eight! We don’t want to integrate!" Take a survey and interview current students if they would have had the courage to stand up against the norm, and fight for equality.
2. Write a recap of the first days at school, the riot that happened on North campus, how the president sent the students back to Atlanta (for their safety), but then later after a petition by the faculty the students were brought back to school. Write a recap of what happened but with a fresh twist and look on what happened. (Kind of like a walk-through history lesson, just without the dryness)
3. Feature on the location: south-east. Which schools had been integrated already in the US. Cross compare it with international countries. US--> innovative, and ahead of the rest of the world.
4. Inspiring feature to show how far we've come since then. All of the technological advancements, and social improvements since then.
5. Editorial on talent... in the Olympics. Create a sense of unity. See beyond outside color differences to the part where we all have something useful to offer. An example would be all the athletes in the Olympics (of all different races). I mean, we wouldn't be too good if it wasn't for some influential African American athletes.
6. An image or a color coded map that showed which states and schools had been desegregated by the late '60's.
7. Change is scary. Remember the millennium. People were so comfortable in the first thousand years that they thought the world was going to end. A feature recapping how change is scary but not always bad.
8. A table showing diversity on population of UGA compared to 10, 20, 50 years ago.
9. A day in the life of: an African American professor (feelings on desegregation now, and any memories of growing up... stories from parents or anything)
10. A day in the life of: an African American fraternity and sorority
11. A day in the life of: an African American athlete
12. An editorial on biracial babies (students born with parents of different ethnic decent)
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