SMART FROM THE START INC

Over the last two summers, 50 of our youth, family leaders and their children, along with our staff team and some board members, embarked on a civil rights summer pilgrimage. Together, we journeyed through 18 states from boston all the way down to louisiana, ending our journey in tennessee. It was nothing short of life changing for the youth and family leaders. They returned home with new perspectives, ideas, action plans and enthusiasm and our youth, in particular, with a new sense of patriotism and commitment. We visit historically relevant sites; meet people with great knowledge to share; and learn about the stories, struggles, trials, and triumphs of powerful, brilliant and gifted enslaved, oppressed and persecuted americans who helped build this country while studying how their fight for equality informs our own.