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BANNEKER HIGH
STUDENTS TO SEEK WAYS TO OVERCOME HATE
DURING ADL MISSION TO U.S.
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM
Atlanta, Georgia (October 5, 2006) Summer
Dorsey and Richard McLean, juniors at Banneker High School in
Fulton County, have been selected as delegates for the
Anti-Defamation League’s eighth annual Grosfeld Family
National Youth Leadership Mission to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum in Washington, D.C., from Sunday, November 12 through
Wednesday, November 15, 2006. They are part of a group of ten
ethnically, religiously and racially diverse high school
students from throughout the metro
Atlanta
area who will participate in the
Mission.
The students will convene in Washington to debate, question, and
wrestle with the harmful issues of bigotry and intolerance in
America. The centerpiece of the Mission will be their visit to
the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
“I would like to help others who have been discriminated against
and to show others how to respond to people who discriminate,”
said Summer Dorsey.
The Museum will not only educate the delegates about the
Holocaust, but will allow for exploration of current issues of
extremism and bigotry. The student delegations will also have
the unique opportunity to hear the personal stories of ADL
National Director Abraham Foxman, himself a Holocaust
survivor, and civil rights legend Rep. John Lewis
(D-GA). Their testimonies will remind participants
that they each possess the power -- through their actions and
behavior -- to combat bigotry.
ADL developed the National Youth Leadership Mission to help
confront and overcome racial tensions. The
Mission
uses historic and modern-day examples of moral courage to help
motivate students to fight prejudice within their own lives and
in their schools and communities. The delegates become positive
agents for change and help teach their peers the strength of
diversity.
“I really want to learn and interact with a diversity of teens
my age,” commented Richard McLean, when asked why he wants to go
on the Mission.
Shelley Rose, Associate Director with the ADL Southeast Region
office noted, “Our youth must learn the benefits of diversity
and be given the tools to combat bigotry. This
Mission
encourages open communication and frank discussion to do just
that.”
The
National Youth Leadership Mission was initiated in 1996
by ADL’s Greater Chicago/Upper Midwest Regional office. This
year’s Mission is comprised of 110 ethnically, religiously and
racially diverse high school students from Atlanta, Chicago,
Cleveland, Detroit, Florida, Las Vegas, New Orleans, New York,
Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.
The following schools are sending delegates to this year’s
Mission: Banneker High School, Fulton County; Cross Keys High
School, DeKalb County; The Galloway School,
Atlanta;
North Atlanta High School, Atlanta; and Berkmar High School,
Gwinnett County.
For more information about the National Youth Leadership
Mission, the Anti-Defamation League, or its A WORLD OF
DIFFERENCE® Institute, please call Shelley Rose,
Associate Director, ADL Southeast Region, at 404-262-3470 or
E-mail atlanta@adl.org.
The
Anti-Defamation League is the world’s leading organization
fighting anti-Semitism
through
programs and services that counteract hatred, prejudice and
bigotry.
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PHOTO ATTACHED.
Caption: Banneker High School delegates to the ADL Grosfeld
Family National Youth Leadership Mission, Summer Dorsey and
Richard McLean.
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