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Academy program aids Cedar Rapids black youths identity search
Eighteen year old Bobbiette Wachuku, a Linn-Mar High School graduate, attends The Academy for Scholastic and Personal Success a six week Cedar Rapids program for African American students. Sponsored by the Cedar Rapids schools the University of Iowa and Mount Mercy College the program costs 100 dollars per student. Students study math science African American literature and history and end with a field trip to Atlanta visiting sites like the Martin Luther King Center Rosa Parks Center Booker T. Washington home and Tuskegee University.
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Wachuku
Ruth White
Washington High School
Cedar Rapids
University of Iowa
Opportunity At
Iowa
Mount Mercy College
White
Tony Campbell
Johnson Elementary
Sharon Carrington
Atlanta
Bobbiette Wachuku
Marion
Adaeze Wachuku
Chris Cortez
Papis Sabbah
Academy
Martin Luther King Center
Rosa Parks Center
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee University
Washington
Michael Casey