Students Learn Black History Lessons by Portraying Wax Figures

Second-graders at Johnnycake Elementary School learned to act like wax figures this week, as they dressed up as influential African-Americans for Black History Month.

The students in Jesse Lehrer's class researched different African-American figures in history and became them in a program in Thursday afternoon. The students would stand still in their costumes until a visitor rang a bell beside them. They then sprung to life and recited a speech about the person they were playing.

Parents and classmates of the students toured through the museum in the morning and the afternoon.

Lehrer had a variety of historical figures represented in the room ranging from more famous figures to lesser known ones.

"It wasn't just who they wrote about, they got to learn about everybody else," she said.