Military Students Learn Lessons from Selma Voting Rights Movement
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From the West Alabama Newsroom– Maxwell Air Command and Staff College is using the Civil Rights Movement to help students develop their leadership skills.
Students from Maxwell’s Air Command and College and Alabama State’s Air Force Junior ROTC took a tour of several historic civil rights sites in Selma — as part of their military training.
They’re taking a class that explores how studying the civil rights movement can help the military develop better leaders.
Instructors say students learn about courage — the process of change — and the how to respond to adversity.
“Too often in the military we study how to break things and not how to build things, said Dr. Marci Ledlow. “People do make fun of me for teaching things like non-violence to military students but there is a lot of lessons that people can learn.”
The group wrapped up the tour with a walk across the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge.
