In honor of Black History Month, Springfield Township High School’s Voices of Excellence hosted a Civil Rights Symposium. The Symposium featured many speakers from the Civil Rights Movement, along with a collaboration of choruses. Students from George Washington Carver High School Chorus aided Springfield’s Spartan Select in multiple song selections prior to the start of sessions. Following that, these students were then able to attend the session of one of the many different speakers that lived during the time. The speakers were Tuskegee Airman Dr. Eugene Richardson along with Melvin Payne, Woolworth lunch counter sit-in participants Martha Woods (NAACP) and Deloris Miller Parks, Girard College desegregation participant June Bourne and Rosetta Shaffar, Chester school desegregation participant Glenn Benson, Civil Rights Activist with Rev. Leon Sullivan Dr. Mildred Johnson, Abington’s first African-American family Barbara Harris, and Civil Rights Activist Samuel Brackeen. Freedom riders Ann Ramsey and Ducky Birts, who marched with Dr. King and Jesse Jackson, were not able to make the event, but provided valuable information and resources for the students.