Name: Vivi Urias Morfin

Social Justice Group: Women’s Reproductive Rights (B)

Date of Fieldwork: January 24, 2025

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):MCNY

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork:

On Jan 24, 2025, our whole 8th grade class took a field trip to the MCNY. We went to the activism exhibit and we learned about different influential events and activists fighting for change. Me and Esme went to look at the women’s rights activism and we learned about different protests and events and activism that people did for women’s rights in America. We learned about the Ms. America competition and other female activists. We also learned about other topics like the Young Lords and we learned about immigration activism. It was all really interesting and at the end we got to ask the tour guide questions which was really helpful and interesting. Esme asked her some questions but we didn’t really get very much on our topic from this field trip. It was interesting but we didn’t really gain any extra information about our specific topic. It was still cool to learn about other activism though like the disability rights movement. We got to learn more about the activism and the protests that happened like when Denise Mcquaid fought for her rights by sitting on the step of a bus for over 7 hours. It was really inspiring and this field trip was a great opportunity to learn about our topic and other examples of important activism.