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pAST EVENTS
Intersection of Race, Religion & Politics - Parts 3 & 4
September 28, 2024 Workshop #3 - Race & Religion October 27, 2024 Workshop #4 - The Racial Reasoning of White Voters
Intersection of Race, Religion & Politics - Part 1 & 2
April 27, 2024 Workshop #1 - Building Common Ground/Knowing Our Racial Landscape May 19, 2024 Workshop #2 - Common Ways of Talking About...
Marva Collins: Revolutionary Teacher of the “Unteachable”
Marva Collins became a teacher out of necessity. Growing up in segregated Alabama in the wake of the Depression, she attended a one-room...
Jan 21, 2023
Steve Henson: Creator of Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing
In 1949, thirty-one year old Steve Henson and his wife, Gayle, decided to leave their home in Nebraska and head off for the unknown in...
Jan 21, 2023
Joyce Ardell Jackson and Brad Lomax: Disability Rights Activists
The 1950s and 1960s saw hard earned gains in civil rights legislation. Despite enormous opposition from Deep South states, civil rights...
Jan 21, 2023
Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson: NASA’s Hidden Figures
Many of the women profiled so far faced both racism and the added burden of sexism. Given the opportunity, women proved they could be...
Jan 15, 2023
Edward W. Brooke, III: First Black U.S. Senator
Edward W. Brooke was born in 1919 to a middle-class family in Washington, D.C. His father was a lawyer, so the family’s income and...
Jan 15, 2023
Lucille and Ruby Bridges: First Black Child to Integrate a White Elementary School
When The U.S. Supreme Court struck down school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the impact was initially both...
Jan 15, 2023
The Deacons for Defense and Justice: Armed Protectors of Civil Rights
If you grew up Black in the South during the Jim Crow era, it was virtually guaranteed that in addition to experiencing discrimination...
Jan 15, 2023
Georgia Gilmore: Food Activist Who Fed the Montgomery Boycotters
In 1955, a thirty-six year old single mother of six boarded a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama. After she dropped her coins into the...
Jan 15, 2023
Fannie Lou Hamer: The woman who was sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Fannie Lou Hamer was the youngest of twenty children, born to Mississippi sharecroppers in 1917. Even though Polio left her with a limp,...
Jan 15, 2023
Bayard Rustin: Master Organizer for Civil Rights, Gay Rights and Human Rights
An entire year could be spent profiling the hundreds of civil rights leaders who worked tirelessly for abolition, desegregation, and...
Jan 15, 2023
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