Small Wash. college aims to teach civil rights

Associated Press

January 15, 2012

About 100 students at Whitman College will be going into school classrooms this week to teach about the civil rights movement. The pilot project is a partnership between the college in Walla Walla, Wash. and the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala. Walla Walla is a small city known for its sweet onions and wine. Blacks make up less than 3 percent of the population there. But the inland Pacific Northwest has long been a center of white supremacist activity, and the growing Latino population in the region also has raised concerns about civil rights.

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