Mobile Museum of Tolerance

For two days last week, ICJA’s driveway was home to the Mobile Museum of Tolerance, an initiative of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Each history class paid a visit to the Museum, where students learned about battling hatred, antisemitism, propaganda, and bigotry.

Half of students experienced the Museum’s presentation on the American civil rights movement. After watching an informational film about the civil rights struggle, students discussed what they’d learned, including the 1896 Plessy vs. Ferguson Supreme Court case establishing “separate but equal” standards for Black and white citizens, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Other students experienced the Museum’s presentation about the Holocaust. Students viewed and discussed examples of anti-Jewish propaganda and talked about why Nazi Germany was able to demonize Jews and how to recognize and counter similar examples of antisemitic and other types of propaganda today.

Thank you to former ICJA parent Alison Slovin, Midwest Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, for bringing this wonderful resource to ICJA.