Day Five started with a team building exercise. Students grouped with those they haven't spent much time with on the trip and detailed what has impacted them most about the CHS Civil Rights Tour. Students shared what they heard with the entire group. The Project Based Learning technique called The Concentric Circle was used for the exercise.

 

A tour of Howard University, a premier Historically Black College or University, was taken and the students then traveled to Cedar Hill where they had the opportunity to walk through the house that was owned by Frederick Douglass. In southeast Washington, D.C., Cedar Hill was constructed between 1855 and 1859. Frederick Douglass escaped from slavery in 1838 and his freedom was purchased in 1846. Douglass bought the house in 1877 for $6,700.00. Douglass resided at Cedar Hill until his death in 1895.

 

The Arlington National Cemetery exposed the students to the valor of war with the pristine cemetery serving as a backdrop. The somberness of the guarded and the actual changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soliders was witnessed. Day Five ended with a night tour of the U.S Monuments that are on the National Mall. As students sat on the steps of Lincoln Memorial, a Clearwater High student read excerpts from Dr. Martin Luther King’s famed “I Have a Dream Speech.” Dr. King delivered the speech from that area on August 28, 1963.