Article: Proactive in the pursuit of peace: The vice president of a local civil-rights group takes the initiative to help the Schuylkill Valley School District promote racial harmony among its students.

Byline: Darrin Youker

Jan. 13--When the Schuylkill Valley School District was embroiled last fall in a controversy over students flying Confederate flags, Robert S. Jefferson reached out to district administrators. Jefferson, vice president of the Reading branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, spoke about ways to ease racial tensions in the schools. On Thursday, Jefferson reached out to students as well during assemblies at the middle and high schools in advance of Monday's Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. Jefferson read from the famous "I Have a Dream" speech that King delivered in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln ...

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