Ida Reed's Contact Details

Ida Reed's Company Details

American Civil Rights Education Services; Inc

New York, New York, United States • 1 - 10 Employees
Education Management

ACRES Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides supplementary after school educational services to under-served youth.A keystone of the program is an out of the classroom cross-country trip that gives students a life-changing educational experience via hands-on lessons on the Civil Rights Movement. The inspirational program has empowered thousands of high school students nationwide by bringing to life the injustices that are so often buried in our country's past. The transformative process integrates education and experience in lessons of acceptance, social justice and standing up for the rights of all humans to an audience of impressionable youthThrough a highly emotional and eye opening ten-day journey to a period of segregation in the Deep South, students learn the history behind racism in the United States and reflect upon their ability to embrace diversity and become an active advocate for social justice. Through the lives of civil rights foot soldiers that were taken through the movement and those of surviving movement veterans, participants learn to view society differently. Sojourners are challenged to reach within themselves to define the values that drive them and to defend the principles of equality and justice – a deep and personal inquiry that rarely happens in a classroom.