High school students in Chicago's South Shore and Tulsa, Oklahoma, have joined forces to study the 1919 Chicago race riot and the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, drawing connections between the two tragedies and modern racial tensions to understand how communities have been shaped by these events.
Franklin Cosey-Gay, the project director of the Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention (CCYVP) housed at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, is spearheading the project and plans to continue the relationship between the two high schools following the educational exchange through a virtual classrom.
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