Black College Tour 2016 Day 3

By Student Blogger Disheka Moore:

On day 3 of the college tour, we went to go visit Texas Southern University. Although it was in the area closer to the neighborhood of Houston, it seems to have had quite a decent scenery. The school was full of diverse students who took part in festivities while class was dismissed. Our tour guide gave us a brief explanation of many locations on the campus while we viewed the recreation center, the basketball stadium and the lunch room. The friendly laid back environment that was portrayed stood out the most about this university, which definitely sets itself apart from the other colleges so far. Some information was not received by everyone, but there was enough given out to change some of my peers' (who are seniors) considerations in applying. After the college tour we went to go visit the Buffalo Soldiers Museum. In the beginning, we watched a video clip of the background information of the Buffalo Soldiers and how they were significant towards the civil war and the surrounding time era. Once the video was finished, an actor who was an older man that dressed in the Buffalo Soldier Uniform reinacted the point of view of a soldier during the time period and told a story at the same time about the different events happening during such a tragic time. This performance was extraordinary because it highlighted different elements that I never knew about during the Civil war with the Buffalo Soldiers. After that performance we viewed the different rooms containing pictures and actual clothing/ materials pertaining to the civil war period and the Buffalo Soldiers. An interesting aspect of this part of the tour was the different connections that was made with the Indians, the Astronauts and the Tuskegee airmen. This broadened my knowledge and helped me analyse the whole entire hsitory behind the scenes of ww2 and the civil war era