Our Stories: The Generation of the Old & New
A city’s history is a rich and complex story. Twelve students from the Ken Carlson Boys & Girls Club who participated in SECCA’s most recent Inside Out Classroom from July 27-31. During this innovative project the students explored and investigated Winston-Salem’s Historic Black Business District. Through research, which included a study of historical maps, documents, and images; conducting interviews with more than 6 community elders; and surveying the current geographic location once occupied by the District, students re-constituted this once vibrant and vital piece of our collective history.
Throughout the process students utilized filmmaking and new media technology to share and preserve their experiences for others. The students scripted, hosted, filmed, edited, and scored a series of webisodes hosted on a dynamic website of their own design. The various webisodes convey the significance of the Black Business District and its cultural legacy, through the eyes and voices of our next generation. In addition to the webisodes, the site hosts a series of student blogs and other material, that further expresses the story of The Generation of the Old & New. To visit the website please go to [will get url to you shortly].
SECCA would like to thank Maya Gilliam of III Eye Digital, LLC with her program III Eye [kids], and Annette Scippio of the Society for the Study of African American History in Winston–Salem, Forsyth County, for leading the program. SECCA would also like to thank the Ken Carlson Boys & Girls Club for their collaboration and SECCA programs assistant Endia Beal for helping to facilitate the program.
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