Preston Love Jr.
Preston Love shares both the content of the tours and the experience of the participants over several years of Civil Rights tours, created to address the void in Black History education for youth.
Description
Preston Love shares both the content of the tours and the experience of the participants over several years of Civil Rights tours, created to address the void in Black History education for youth. The first tour in 2018 was a life-changing event for 40+ high school sophomores, juniors and seniors, predominantly BIPOC youth from depressed urban areas. The tour addresses the lack of knowledge of black history and the civil rights movement among Omaha’s youth. Since 2018, Love has conducted three in-person tours and one virtual tour (due to COVID in 2020). Traveling to historic sites and museums in Memphis, Jackson, Birmingham, Tuskegee, Montgomery, Selma and Atlanta, participants journal, learn and reflect daily. Because effective leaders must learn and have respect for their own history, the tour serves as leadership development for Omaha’s future leaders, young professionals and adults, encouraging them to understand their own story through the lens of black history. The tour has positively influenced over 1000 kids, families, volunteers and staff to “Go Make History.” The experience encourages youth to service at the local, state, or national level with a message of staying in Nebraska.
Preston Love Jr.
Title: Author and Adjunct Professor of Black Studies, University of Nebraska- Omaha
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (402)-812-3324
City: Omaha