History Lessons -- Confront Racism, Injustice
The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › August 29, 2011
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The instructor told the aspiring tour guides the story of Jess Coln, a black Puerto Rican writer who found himself facing a moral dilemma one night on a New York City subway in the 1950s.
A young white woman with a large suitcase, a baby and two other children got off at the same stop. The station was empty, except for the five of them. It was after midnight.See the full content of this document
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History Lessons -- Confront Racism, Injustice
What did Jess do? Did he offer to help the woman carry her suitcase up the steep concrete stairs to the street?
The 20 guides-in-training were asked to respond by lining up...See the full content of this document
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