One of the Little Rock Nine visits Youngstown

YOUNGSTOWN — Niya Merriweather and William Huffman, Youngstown Early College students, traveled with civil rights activist Minnijean Brown-Trickey when they participated in the Sojourn to the Past. The trip takes high school students through Southern locales where the civil rights movement made history.

Brown-Trickey’s visit to Youngstown, where she spoke Tuesday and today to hundreds of other students in Youngstown City Schools, was another occasion for Niya and William to be inspired and educated. The two were among 75 Early College students who had breakfast Tuesday morning at Trinity United Methodist Church with Brown-Trickey. She was one of the Little Rock Nine students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., in 1957.

“I learned from her that we all can make a difference,” Niya said.

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