Ten middle school-age students from South Jersey took cameras in hand and documented what they experienced on visits to Underground Railroad and historic sites in Camden and Lawnside.
Guided by Erik James Montgomery of the EJM Foundation and Jersey Photography Education Gallery, they used digital single-lens reflex cameras to photograph the sites.
For the fourth year, E. Muneerah Higgs and Jacqueline Miller-Bentley taught the history of the Underground Railroad using writing exercises, music, critical thinking and U.S. abolitionist series postage stamps. Tours of Macedonia A.M.E. Church near the Delaware River in Camden, the Peter Mott House, Mount Peace Cemetery and other historic sites in Lawnside completed the week.
At the closing event June 27 at Lawnside Borough Hall, Mr. Montgomery displayed students’ self-portraits applied to a colorful quilt.
Thanks to Renee McKenzie-Hayward of RMH Photography who has photographed the camps over the past three years and proposed adding photography.