Local students will march up Main St. Sunday afternoon to raise awareness about issues important to them. This weekend's event will be the second Children’s March on Evansville.
Nathan McCullough-Haddix is deputy director at the Children's Museum of Evansville. He said a racist incident at a local elementary school prompted the first Children’s March on Evansville.
He said the schools did their best to address the problem, but the museum and a handful of community partners wanted to do more.
They created the march to let kids talk about their experiences. "How did that image affect them? How did that make them feel? How would they ensure that through their words, through their actions, that this is not something that we would ever see again?" he said.
He said around 300 students took part last year.
The museum hadn’t planned to make it an annual event. Organizers worried that this year’s march wouldn’t have much of a turnout.
But McCullough-Haddix said children are taking note of hate crimes around the country. "They’re not blind to it. They’re not deaf to it, and we truly truly truly want to inspire love in their communities," he said.
A rally before the march starts at 1 p.m. Sunday at Old National Bank. The march itself starts at 3 p.m.
The museum is also accepting art to be displayed as part of the Love Not Hate Expressions Art Exhibit.