Digital Built Environment

Built from the first moment to be dedicated to showing visitors the connections between the Civil Rights Movement and the Human Rights Movement, the Center for Civil and Human Rights has been doing just that for the last nine years. The creators of the Center are Evelyn Lowery and Andrew Young, a legend in the civil rights community and a former Ambassador for the United Nations respectively. As I navigated The Center’s website I was let in on a bit of the history of the building itself and, more importantly the movements that the Center is dedicated to. While searching the different sections of the website I found that it makes special mention of the UDHR, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Written after World War Two, the UDHR is a document that, using its 30 articles, serves as a “set of principles for governments to use to remain accountable for their duty to protect the rights and freedoms of all people.” The next portion of the website to catch my eye was the “Take Action” heading. The heading leads to  a whole section purposed to sharing all of the different ways one might learn more about or get further involved in Civil and Human Rights issues. Some of the links point to encyclopedias; some to resource pages; still others to archives of information. The website also includes information regarding the Center’s events and programs as well as information for setting up school trips, like guides and packets for teachers to use as support for those trips.

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