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MCC Daily Tribune Archive
Community Members, Media Turn Out at First Walking Tour
WROC-TV, Democrat and Chronicle, and Time Warner Cable News joined Verdis Robinson, MCC instructor of history and African-American studies, on July 15 on the first of four walking tours organized by the Rochester Public Library’s Lincoln branch to learn more about the 1964 Rochester race riots. Nearly 20 community members participated in the event.
The tour and accompanying guidebook, as part of the MCC Rochester Neighborhood Oral History Project, are the creations of Verdis and more than 60 of his service-learning students at MCC’s Damon City Campus.
The news media interviewed him and two of his service-learning students involved in the project in 2013-14. The news reports and videos can be accessed online:
Time Warner Cable News:
https://rochester.twcnews.com/content/news/753294/monroe-community-college-holds-walking-tour-about-rochester-s-1964-race-riots/
Democrat and Chronicle:
https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2014/07/15/walking-tour-revisits-riots/12713121/
News8:
https://www.rochesterhomepage.net/story/d/story/rochester-race-riots-a-look-back/33215/rrc-KcSEl0aYMmhu4lF3SQ
Hency Yuen-Eng
Marketing and Community Relations
07/17/2014