non-violence
Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell, Oscar Grant, Rumain Brisbon, Akai Gurley, Kajieme Powell, Ezell Ford, Dante Parker, John Crawford III, Tyree Woodson, Victor White III, Yvette Smith, McKenzie Cochran, Jordan Baker, Andy Lopez, Miriam Carey, Jonathan Ferrell, Carlos Alcis, Larry Eugene Jackson, Deion Fludd, Kimani Gray, Johnnie Kamahi Warren, Malissa Williams, Reynaldo Cuevas, Chavis Carter, Shantel Davis, Sharmel Edwards, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, Ramarley Graham, Rekia Boyd, Kimani Gray, Thomas McGowan, Gloria Killian, New York’s Central Park five, Ronald Jones, Frank Lee Smith, Laurese Glover, Eugene Johnson, Derrick Wheatt, Ruben Cantu, Thomas Griffin and Meeks Griffin, Glenn Ford, Herman Atkins , Arthur Carmona, Antoine Goff & John Tennison, Thomas Goldstein, Ernest Graham,
Smith Valley
Middle School
Fine Art Program
7th and 8th Grade
By Mrs. Fillmore
SMITH, NV - Jennifer Marsh put out a call for work in honor of the court vacating the conviction of the youngest victim of capital punishment in U.S. history.
He had wanted to be an artist. George Stinney was 14 years old when he was electrocuted for the rape and murder of an 8 and 11 year old girl in Alcalou, South Carolina, in 1944.
Smith Valley, Nevada, 7th and 8th grade classes learned about the hasty trial (1-Day) and that Stinney received no defense or appeal from his lawyer in a conviction where the jury deliberated for just 10 minutes before they returned a guilty verdict.
His sentence was reversed on December 14, 2014, citing the lack of a defense or appeal in the case. The students were invited to take a perspective on the case, to honor the lives lost. George Stinney Jr.'s prisoner number was 260.
One young woman told me afterwards that it (this project) had opened her eyes to the different treatment of the races in our country.
Cotton, Fabric, Glue, Thread
By Phoenix