LOOKING FORWARD
- 3/5, 26 – ACT/SAT Bootcamp
- 3/6 – Empowerment Workshop with Marz Bishop at 3pm
- 3/12 – 2nd Annual Virtual College Fair from 10:30am-2:45pm
- 3/13 – College Readiness Workshop with Upward Bound Alumni Jillian Rodriguez, class of 2019 at 4pm
- 3/19 – ACT/SAT Mock Test
- 3/20 – Wellness Workshop with Dr. Angie Wheelus at 2pm
- 3/22 – Live Surgery
- 3/27 – Wellness Workshop with Dr. Angie Wheelus at 2pm
- **Students can make an appointment with Dr. Wheelus to talk about their mental health and any questions relating to their personal wellness. Make an appointment for any Monday/Tuesday 5pm-6pm at angie@battlefieldministries.org. Please let your Advisor know if you have any questions!
HIRAM UPWARD BOUND
- 3/9 – Group Advising
- 3/17 – Women’s History Month Workshop
POLK UPWARD BOUND
- 3/7 – Monday Paradigm Shift Workshop at 5pm
- 3/14 – Game Day: Jeopardy! at 1pm
- 3/21 – Monday Paradigm Shift Workshop at 5pm
- 3/28 – Movie Night at 3pm
EAST PAULDING UBMS
- 3/24 – Group Advisement
- 3/26 – #CAP Workshop
March PHOTO CHALLENGE
Happy March, KSU TRIO Family!
This March, we hope that you all are well rested from your breaks and are excited for the upcoming activities this month!
March is another special month to us because we get to celebrate all the women who have impacted our lives! For the Women's History Month Photo Challenge, students can pick one of the following activities:
1. Take a photo with an important woman in your life
2. Write a poem thanking a figure instrumental to women’s history
3. Submit a drawing of a woman who has influenced you!
We can't wait to see your creativity!
who run the world? girls!
KSU TRIO is proud to celebrate and recognize the impact and contributions of all the women in our lives and our history. March gives us a chance to remember the success and hardships of women, think about the work we have left to do to reach true gender equality, and give recognize the people and organizations helping to affect change.
Women’s History Month began as a small community commemoration in Santa Rosa, California. The Education Task Force of the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women celebrated the first “Women’s History Week” in 1978, which grew into the month-long celebration we know today.
"TOO OFTEN THE WOMEN [OF AMERICA] WERE UNSUNG AND SOMETIMES THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS WENT UNNOTICED. BUT THE ACHIEVEMENTS, LEADERSHIP, COURAGE, STRENGTH, AND LOVE OF THE WOMEN WHO BUILT AMERICA WAS AS VITAL AS THAT OF THE MEN WHOSE NAMES WE KNOW SO WELL." - PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER
The National Women’s History Alliance designates a yearly theme for Women's History Month, and this year's theme is "Women Providing Healing, Promoting Hope." This theme is "both a tribute to the ceaseless work of caregivers and frontline workers during this ongoing pandemic and also a recognition of the thousands of ways that women of all cultures have provided both healing and hope throughout history."
WOMEN'S History Month Profile: FANNIE LOU HAMER
This Women's History Month, KSU TRIO would like to take this time to celebrate the legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer and remember her groundbreaking activism and work as an agent for change.
"NEVER FORGET WHERE WE CAME FROM AND ALWAYS PRAISE THE BRIDGES THAT CARRIED US OVER." - FANNIE LOU HAMER
Fannie Lou Hamer was born in 1917 as the 20th child of her parents who were sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta. She began working with her family at the early age of six, picking cotton. Although she managed to complete some years in elementary school, Fannie Lou was picking hundreds of pounds of cotton a day by the time of her adolescence.
"SOMETIMES, IT SEEM LIKE TO TELL THE TRUTH TODAY IS TO RUN THE RISK OF BEING KILLED. BUT IF I FALL, I'LL FALL FIVE FEET FOUR INCHES FORWARD IN THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. I'M NOT BACKING OFF." - FANNIE LOU HAMER
Speaking out about her experience, she soon rose to the forefront of the Mississippi Civil Rights movement, but the incident that brought her into a leadership role came a year later when she attended a voting rights meeting organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee that was blocked by Mississippi officials. None of the 17 in the group successfully registered to vote, and on the drive back to Ruleville, the bus carrying them was stopped and the driver arrested -- the bus was too yellow, the police claimed. To encourage the other passengers, Fannie Lou began to sing, a single choice that would distinguish her as a leader who could withstand the pressure they would all soon face.
When the passengers scraped together enough money to cover the driver’s fine, the bus was allowed to return to Ruleville. When Hamer got home, she lost her job on the plantation because she had tried to register to vote, saying “I didn’t go down there to register for you. I went down to register for myself.” The news of her leadership on that bus began to spread, so much so that she was recruited to become a community organizer. It was in this role that she organized protests, marches, and speeches for the pursuit of civil rights and equality. Fannie Lou Hamer was one of the most prolific and successful Civil Rights activists in American History, and her work can still be felt today.