After a Look Back, Students Embrace Opportunity to March on Washington - Higher Education

After a Look Back, Students Embrace Opportunity to March on Washington - Higher Education: As a peer mentor working with incoming freshman students, Endaisha Dublin reported to Cheyney State University a week earlier than her upperclassman schoolmates. The long hours this past week of helping students move in to their dorms and adjust to college life led to an unexpected opportunity for the 19-year-old junior biology major.

Along with 46 freshman students and three peer mentors, Dublin, a native of Bloomfield, N.J., will be traveling to Washington, D.C. early Saturday morning to participate in the 50th anniversary commemoration of the March on Washington.

“This is incredible. I’m so excited about being part of history,” she said.

Among the thousands of people traveling to Washington on Saturday to attend the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, college students such as Dublin are enthusiastically embracing the event as a time to claim their own moment in the American Civil Rights Movement.

“I’m absolutely ecstatic about traveling to Washington to celebrate what is one of the most historic Civil Rights Movement events,” said Travonya Kenly, a junior ecology major at Cheyney State University.