annie cooper, if anybody saw the movie "selma", oprah winfrey played annie cooper in the movie, but annie cooper had shared with them her story, and the children became so, you know -- they became so in love with her, they started calling her grandma, and some of them continue to write her even afterwards, but we never knew the historical figure that she was, so i just felt it was very important for my students to have the opportunity to go to selma, to meet people there. their assignment on that trip was to meet someone who participated in their original march and write an essay about them. >> uh-huh. >> and they did that, and now a lot of those students are now in their 40s, and they reach out to me. i remember one student reached out to me and told me that when obama ran for president, he went and volunteered and worked in his office. >> uh-huh. >> and he said the reason why i did that is because i thought about selma. this is a student that i had taken there when he was in the 8th grade. so when we plant theseless -- these lessons, plant these seeds, sometimes we don't know till later

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