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Posted: 2017-01-13T19:11:47Z | Updated: 2017-01-13T19:11:47Z

Students at a Jacksonville, Florida high school protested on Monday demanding that their African American history course be taught year-round.

Police were called to Terry Parker High School, according to First Coast News though they don't report by who, when a group of about 10 students staged a sit-in to urge the school to change their current half-credit, semester-long black history course to a full-credit, year-long course.

In an Instagram video taken in the classroom, sophomore Angelina Roque, who said she organized the protest, tells authorities that calling the police wont silence her. A man can be heard telling her and the other students to please get out of here now.

Students told CBS 47 that the subject matter deserves more attention and that all of their classmates could benefit from it. Roque said they protested to make them hear us, make them see us, make them listen to us.