Over fall break, I participated in the Civil Rights Junior Journey with Florida Southern College. The trip went to D.C. and Memphis. ivil rights was the main focus of the trip. We went to museum after museum, and I learned a lot from the trip.

On the last full day of the trip, before the journey home, we sat in our hotel lobby, all 16 of us that went on the trip, and discussed what was the most impactful thing about the trip to us. We also related what we learned on the trip to our majors. 12 students and 4 faculty members comprised of those of us that went on the trip; as you can imagine, there was a lot that was discussed. Each of the 12 students had something different to say, and it was interesting for me to hear about my peers' experiences, both related to the trip and otherwise.

For me, that last day was one of the most impactful days of the trip. It is what I talked about in my reflection to my peers.

That day, we went to the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. For those of you that don't know, that museum is based on the grounds where Martin Luther King, Jr., was shot.

In the museum, many of the displays showed how youth had a major hand in the Civil Rights movement.

And that's one of the things that struck me the most on this trip.

Growing up, you hear about the Civil Rights movement in just about every social studies or history class.

You hear the big names mentioned every time: MLK and Rosa Parks

You learn about other major players in the game: John Lewis, Malcom X, Stokely Carmichael.

But going to that museum, and seeing the efforts of all of these people, really affected me.

And learning about even more people that had a hand in the Civil Rights movement, the lesser known people or even the nameless faces in the background, just grounded me.

Youth had a major role in the Civil Rights movement. They had a major role in revolutions abroad. And they have a large role in the Black Lives Matter movement today.

As a kid, I always knew that these people were older than I was.

However, kids were also involved in the Civil Rights movement.

College students, people my age, had a huge role in the Civil Rights movement, including forming councils and preaching nonviolence.

It is the younger generation that helped the movement get as far as it did.

It is the younger generation that helped fuel protests in the Middle East in 2011.

It is the younger generation that decries the police brutality in the U.S. today.

And it is the younger generation that will continue to affect movements of change for as long as change is needed in our world.

That's powerful.