Oral+History+Reflection

After seeing Ms. Rozga do a poetry reading about her book about the March on Milwaukee titled "200 Nights and one day" and then having dinner with her afterword I found out a lot about the March because she was a part of it. The March took place a few years before she got married to Father Groppi but she was still close to him and she was able to tell me a lot about her feelings and what it was like for her being in the middle of the March. She gave me great first hand accounts of what happened and then during her poetry reading it was really cool she said something about how some of the work is done to get equality but the rest is left for our children and she pointed at me and it really made me feel like even though a lot of the work is done we still have more work to do and that work is for my generation to do to improve Civil Rights for everyone. I also found out which was also really cool was that one of the people who was in the March her grand daughter went up to her teacher and this girl was in like 4th grade and she said to her teacher after looking through her history book she went up to the teacher and said can I talk to the Principal about our curriculum and she talked to the teacher about how she didn't see anything about the March on Milwaukee which made me realize that this was a pretty big Civil Rights location.