INFLUENTIAL BLACK FIGURES. A WAX MUSEUM HAS COME TO LIFE HERE AT MILLWOOD. STUDENTS ARE EMBODYING ICONIC BLACK FIGURES IN AMERICAN HISTORY. HERE WE’VE GOT MICHAEL JORDAN, AND RIGHT OVER HERE, THE JACKSON FIVE. EASY AS ONE, TWO, THREE. IMPRESSED IS NOT EVEN A WORD. I LITERALLY CANNOT EVEN STAND INSIDE BECAUSE I’M GOING TO CRY. THE MOST NOTABLE AND HISTORY DEFYING BLACK AMERICANS WERE BACK IN ONE ROOM AT MILLWOOD ELEMENTARY LEARNING ACADEMY FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH. STUDENTS FROM THIRD, FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADE PICKED AN ICON AND AFTER EXTENSIVE RESEARCH, BROUGHT THEM TO LIFE TO SEE THE ATTITUDE THAT THEY HAVE ADJUSTED FOR AND SEE HOW MUCH WORK THAT THEY PUT IN. IT’S LITERALLY PHENOMENAL. FROM THE SUPREME COURT, I’M THURGOOD MARSHALL, I WAS BORN ON JULY 2ND, 1908, IN BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, 82 THE BASKETBALL COURT. HI, MY NAME IS KOBE BRYANT. ALSO KNOWN AS THE BLACK MAMBA, THE GREATEST PLAYER OF ALL TIME POLITICIANS AND MONUMENTAL CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS STOPPED BY KOCO FIVE. EVEN GOT A PRIVATE SHOW FROM SOME OF THE GREATEST MUSICAL ACTS OF ALL TIME. I’M BEYONCE, I’M KELLY, AND I’M MICHELLE. SAY MY NAME, SAY MY NAME. WHEN NO ONE IS AROUND YOU SAY BABY, I LOVE YOU. MILLWOOD SAID. THE LIVE BLACK HISTORY EXHIBIT HELPS STUDENTS CONNECT WITH HISTORY ON A PERSONAL LEVEL. THEY WOULD LEAVE FROM ONE SIDE TO THE OTHER SIDE TO GO AND LOOK AT THE OTHER PERSON. SO THEY WERE LEARNING STUFF ABOUT THEIR FRIENDS AND LEARNING STUFF ABOUT THEIR OWN CHARACTER. AT THE SAME TIME. REPO
Millwood students take journey through Black history with live wax museum
Some of the most notable and history-defying Black Americans were back in one room at Millwood Elementary Learning Academy
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Updated: 5:56 PM CST Feb 29, 2024
Guests at Millwood Public Schools took a journey through Black History on Thursday as students put on a live wax museum to celebrate Black History Month.Students embodied iconic Black figures in American history like Michael Jordan and the Jackson Five.Get the latest news stories of interest by clicking here."Impressed is not even the word. I literally cannot stand inside because I'm going to cry," Alex Chase, a multimedia teacher at Millwood Public Schools, said.Some of the most notable and history-defying Black Americans were back in one room at Millwood Elementary Learning Academy.For Black History Month, students in third, fourth and fifth grades picked an icon. Then, after extensive research, they brought those icons to life."To see the attitude they have adjusted for it and the work that they've put in, it's literally phenomenal," Chase said.>> Download the KOCO 5 AppFrom the Supreme Court with Thurgood Marshall to Kobe Bryant on the basketball court, politicians and monumental civil rights activists stopped by. KOCO 5 even got a private show from some of the greatest musical acts of all time.Millwood Public Schools officials said the live Black history exhibit helps students connect with history on a personal level."They would leave from one side to the other side to go look at the other person, so they were learning about their friends and their own character at the same time," Chase said.Top Headlines Norman City Council declares house public nuisance, forcing owner out in rare step Tourist survives after driving rented Jeep off of a cliff in Hawaii Gas leak at OKANA Resort construction site in Oklahoma City prompts evacuations Person taken to hospital, 3 puppies die after building fire in southwest Oklahoma City
OKLAHOMA CITY — Guests at Millwood Public Schools took a journey through Black History on Thursday as students put on a live wax museum to celebrate Black History Month.
Students embodied iconic Black figures in American history like Michael Jordan and the Jackson Five.
Get the latest news stories of interest by clicking here.
"Impressed is not even the word. I literally cannot stand inside because I'm going to cry," Alex Chase, a multimedia teacher at Millwood Public Schools, said.
Some of the most notable and history-defying Black Americans were back in one room at Millwood Elementary Learning Academy.
For Black History Month, students in third, fourth and fifth grades picked an icon. Then, after extensive research, they brought those icons to life.
"To see the attitude they have adjusted for it and the work that they've put in, it's literally phenomenal," Chase said.
>> Download the KOCO 5 App
From the Supreme Court with Thurgood Marshall to Kobe Bryant on the basketball court, politicians and monumental civil rights activists stopped by. KOCO 5 even got a private show from some of the greatest musical acts of all time.
Millwood Public Schools officials said the live Black history exhibit helps students connect with history on a personal level.
"They would leave from one side to the other side to go look at the other person, so they were learning about their friends and their own character at the same time," Chase said.
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