Youngstown students seek annual 'Nonviolence Week'

YOUNGSTOWN

Ten city high school students want the Youngstown school board to declare an annual “Nonviolence Week” each October.

The students took part in “Sojourn to the Past” in April, a 10-day historic/

educational journey into the South to study the places and people

involved in this country’s civil-rights movement, and came back with a plan to bring a message of nonviolence to their peers.

A key element of the “Sojourn” journey involves learning how nonviolence was used in that movement. City students who took the trip in 2009 launched the district’s first Nonviolence Week last October, persuading the school board and administration to allow them to organize the event.