Sofia Mutis, Reporter
December 1, 2021
“I was actually born over 8,000 miles away from here across the ocean in a small town called Eldoret, Kenya,” said the new Clayton District Superintendent Dr. Nisha Patel. “I was born there, and I stayed there until I was about 10. Years prior to moving, my parents sat my three siblings and I down, and they told us someday we were going to move to the United States and the only reason we are...
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
A still shot of the 1964 reconstruction of the Arch in progress.
Isabella Bamnolker and Charlie Miller
November 29, 2021
As Percy Green dangled from the Gateway Arch to protest the exclusion of black workers from the construction, a policeman attempted to talk him down. Percy Green, a St. Louis raised social worker and black activist, protested the exclusion of black workers from federal contracts and jobs related to the construction of the Arch. President Lyndon B Johnson had just signed the Civil Rights...
