Local schools put on living wax museum for Black History Month

This past week Horseshoe Bend School’s and Reeltown Elementary School’s gifted students came together to honor Black History Month.

The gift students, third through fifth grade, put together a living wax museum Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday morning. The following students were featured.  

Reeltown Elementary 

• JP Rollins as Helper

• Ava Stanfield as Nichelle Nichols

• Lyric Godbolt as Ruby Bridges 

• Anna Carson Tapley as Misty Copeland

• Zaid Alqahtain as Usian Bolt

• Townes Barham as Guion Bluford

• Collins Bonifay as Louis Armstrong 

• Kyleigh Burton as Florence Griffith Joiner

• Addie Chamness as Serena Williams 

• Reagan Garner as Ella Fitzgerald 

• Cooper Taylor as Muhammad Ali

• Jack Conradson as Authur Ash

• Zain Moore as Daniel Hale Williams

Horseshoe Bend

• Hayden Garrett as John Legend

• Oliver Gilliland as George Washington Carver

• Tristian Mooney as Jackie Robinson 

• Adalee Morris as Mary Bowser

• Breck Sanford as Benjamin Davis Jr         

• Grayson Stewart as Collin Powell

• Mackenzie Thomas as Misty Copeland

• Blakely Worthy as Alice Ball

• John Bence as Michael Jordan 

• Lillian Booth as Simone Biles

• Whitley Daniel as Katherine Cooper

• Luke Kinder as Michael Jackson

• Charlie McCrane as Fred Gray

• Levi Turner as Muhammad Ali

• Emma Seaton as Ella Fitzgerald 

• Mason Booth as Matthew Henson

• Stephen Duerr as Nelson Mandela 

• Jackson Gilbert as Fredrick Jones                        

• Presley Johns as Annie Easley 

• Abigail Morgan as Bessie Coleman                                   

• Hannah Queen as Maya Angelo          

• Alana Thompson as Jackie Joiner Kersee      

• Harrison Vines as Booker T Washington 

• Charleigh Worthy as Ruby Bridges