Activist Finds Her Voice While Supporting Her Community During Ferguson Protests
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Grades: 6 - 12

Video Description: LaShell Eikerenkoetter’s life began to change on Aug. 9, 2014, the day Michael Brown was killed by a Ferguson police officer. During the protests in Ferguson, she emerged as a leader of the movement. Eikerenkoetter is now an active civil rights activist in St. Louis known as ‘Ohun Ashe,’ recently launching a website supporting black-owned businesses

Type of Video: Profile*
Unique Video ID: Civil Rights-53**

Quick Ideas for Using the Video:

  • Use the video as a conversation starter or with a journal prompt as part of your students’ study of segregation, civil rights, and related subjects.
  • Use the video as inspiration for a student project that has them creating videos profiling activists in their own community.

 

*Profile videos use a first-person/first-hand approach to highlight interesting people doing interesting things in the area of study.

**The unique Video ID can be used to quickly locate a single video in the ET collection. This search function is designed to let teachers assign students to watch a specific video and have only that video appear as a search result. Just click on Search and choose “By Video ID.” Then type in the Video ID as it appears above. Be sure to include the dash.

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