The genesis of these school visits was working with The British Association for American Studies (BAAS) in an event at the University of Leicester on February 6th 2013, to mark the centenary of the birth of Mrs Rosa Parks.

In 2008 I had worked on "The My Lai Tapes", a documentary for BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service about the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War. It won two awards. In 2013, with Whistledown, I worked on "Rosa Parks, Quiet Revolutionary", a documentary for the BBC World Service exploring her lifelong activism.

The 2013 centenary event at the University of Leicester was well received by the teachers who brought their students. The children were so receptive to this combination of seeing contemporary artefacts and hearing the stories behind them, that the obvious next step was to develop workshops to be taken into schools and engage children with these two areas of history.