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Students dance to black history beat
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It’s not every day students and teachers play African drums and step dance across the auditorium stage at WCHS. However, that happened Friday during a fundraiser for the school’s Black History Club.Teacher Malcolm Montgomery emceed the event which showcased students on the step team and had performances by Wayne Wolford and the African Dance Performers.Jerica Haywood, Tia Perkins and Jasmine Pinegar told the audience some black history facts.The students told about W.E.B. Du Bois, an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, author and editor. After graduating from Harvard, where Du Bois was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor at Atlanta University. Du Bois was one of the co-founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).