Cadets and staff recently set about on a twelve-day Civil Rights Staff Ride. The staff ride is an Academic Individual Advanced Development training opportunity, focused on teaching cadets Civil Rights law, history, literature, and policy.
The Leesburg African American Museum was one of several stops during a 12-day trip throughout the country for the group to give them a better feel for what they have recently learned in a classroom back at school on laws and history relating to the civil rights movement. Their focus at the Leesburg African American Museum was one of Lake County’s more famous battles in the civil rights movement - The Groveland Four or the Groveland Boys, four black citrus pickers who were falsely accused of raping a 17-year-old white woman in Groveland in 1949. Read More