My Nonprofit Reviews

Tracing history through a “summer journey” which allowed me to visit historical landmarks pertinent to the Civil Rights Movement and Holocaust and also speaking with activists who were involved in these acts of discrimination was jubilant. As my intellectual skills grew from gaining the knowledge of history that my textbooks lacked, articulation was becoming a strength as opposed to a weakness. Being in a diverse group that consists of different individuals who all have different backgrounds has developed my social skills. Diversity plays a key role in life because it releases you from your comfort zone, and it allows you to think from different perspectives based on race, religion, and culture. For me, the most moving place on the trip was the Lorraine Motel where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed. Standing below the balcony where he was shot, I felt a suffocating sense of grief and hopelessness. I then realized that hopelessness was not what King would have wanted. The responsibility he felt for the future was a responsibility each of us now feel. In “A Letter from a Birmingham,” King say, “I am here because injustice is here.” OUDC has taught me not just to address injustice when I am confronted with it, but also to seek it out.

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