If you are a Chicago reporter and free on Friday, June 11, you should head to Marquette Park to see a group of students from
Gage Park High School—a place that is typically in the news either for murdered students or horrid test scores—launch a
different kind of memorial, a high-tech kiosk commemorating the housing rights marches of 1966. Civil rights leaders, including Jesse Jackson Sr., will be on hand for the dedication.
Speaking of dedication, this was truly a student-driven project (nothing “low-performing” about what it took for the kids to make it possible and create the content). But above all they benefited from the energy, determination and
