Rob Warden, executive director of the Northwestern Center on Wrongful Convictions, shared this good news in an email:
Six Chicago high school students—five from Francis W. Parker and one from Whitney Young—recently completed an impressive oral history project focusing on clients and staff of the Center on Wrongful Convictions.
The interviews, both transcribed and video-taped, are posted here.
The project was led by Jeanne Polk Barr, chair of the Department of History & Social Studies at Parker, and Cliff Mayotte, director of Educational Programs for the Voice of Witness Program.
Cliff is a colleague of Parker alumnae Lola Vollen, who co-authored with David Eggers a remarkable book titled Surviving Justice, containing interviews with exonerated defendants.
The oral history project was done in cooperation with Facing History & Ourselves.
The Parker students who conducted interviews were Madison Mullen, Sydney Bronstein, Becca Lewis, Henry Cutler, and Willy Byrne Vogt. The Whitney Young student was Grace Zelle.
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