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Donna Rickman explains to the students that the pulpit (back, right) was

once used by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during a 1960 visit to First

United Methodist Church in downtown Battle Creek. (Shopper News photo by Shelly

Kehrle-Sulser)

said about what they learned.

Another student said they learned

that Sojourner Truth was from Battle

Creek.

“It was actually pretty fun,” said

Moonie Barkus. “I learned a lot

about Harriet Tubman and Sojourner

Truth.”

The tour also included a visit to the

Sojourner Truth room at the Kimball

House Museum, to Quaker Park

where they saw footprints in the con-

crete considered to have been made

by Sojourner Truth and to the Battle

Creek Regional History Museum.

Rickman said she agreed to lead

the tour to help give the students

the opportunity to learn. “Many

times people of color, youth, just

don’t get out and see what is in their

own communities,” said Rickman,

a retired Post Franklin Elementary

School teacher. “These are major

monuments and really need to be

seen by all in one’s town.”

The Underground Railroad

Monument, for example, not only

contains likenesses of the Husseys,

but also Harriet Tubman, known as

America’s Black Moses, leading a

family away from the shackles of

slavery.

“It tells so many stories,” Rickman

said of the piece created by Ed

Dwight of Denver, Colo. in 1993

and made possible by the Glenn A.

Cross estate and the W.K. Kellogg

Foundation.

R.I.S.E. Corp Founder and

Executive Director Damon Brown

said he wanted the students to have

the opportunity to learn more about

Black history and about their home-

town’s role in shaping Black history.

“We’re continuing on our journey

of teaching kids on their histories,

the importance of our history,” said

Brown, “especially doing Freedom

School this year, what it’s about,

what it symbolizes and where it

comes from. It’s all interrelated.”

Brown said even he learned a few

facts from Rickman that day.

“It was a lot of people’s first time

down at the Battle Creek historical

museum,” said Brown, “and there is

a lot of great history in there, a lot of

great folks from Battle Creek.”

Brown, who publicly thanked

Rickman for sharing her time and

knowledge, said knowing history

is important when striving to make

progress.

“You definitely have to know your

history in order to understand your

present,” he said, “and know your

future so it’s important for our kids

to know their history so they don’t

let it happen to us again. And, to let

them see how far we’ve come and

the opportunities they have in front

of them that weren’t afforded to a

lot of us. It’s very, very important to

stay grounded in who we are.”

The school, he said, instills a sense

of pride and of self into the students,

he said.

“That’s the biggest thing,” he said,

“It’s about pride and joy and R.I.S.E.

is about support and empowerment.

That’s what we’re doing through

these types of activities, supporting

our kids and we’re empowering them

to be grown ups one day.”