Desegregation Story Ideas:
1) Feature profile on Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter-Gault the first male and female African American students at UGA.
2) History of how UGA became desegregated timeline
3) How desegregation of UGA affected Athens/ Georgia as a whole
4) Coverage of Glory Bound: A Voyage Through the Underground Railroad on February 22, and make it so that the readers get the same visual of the experiences in the underground railroad.
5) Reviews of "Ruined" (a play) performed on February 15, "The Search for Quality Education: Busing” (Peabody film) shown on February 16, and any other songs, plays, movies, etc being held for UGA's 50th Desegregation Anniversary.
6)Compare the different classes (Freshman, Sophmores, etc) and their diversity with statistics
7) A look at how diverse UGA in comparison to its aspiration schools
8) A pop culture look at 1961 vs 2011. What's different? What's similar? How does desegregation play a role in this? A then and now piece
9) A feature on what Athens was like 50 years ago. Where could blacks go/ not go? Where were they treated equally? Where did they hang out?
10) Famous African Americans who graduated from UGA
11) The media's role in UGA's desegregation
12) Sites around campus that have been built/made to commemorate the desegregation of UGA, for example, Foot Soldier Project for Civil Rights Studies Collection in the Russel library
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