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Events
“Stories from Civil Rights History, Then
and Now”
Across the globe—in places large and
small, rich and poor, more educated and
less—we face monumental challenges. It can
seem that we have never been so divided.
Susan Follett believes in the power of
story to dismantle those divides.
She grew up in the shadow and silence of
Jim Crow, unaware of the March from Selma
scarcely 100 miles from her hometown
Meridian, Mississippi, where three civil
rights workers disappeared during Freedom
Summer. As an adult, she set out to
understand why she did not know her own
history and what might be different if she
had.
The FOG MACHINE
is the result of her examination and
reimagining of the times.
Her “Stories from Civil Rights History,
Then and Now” events help classrooms and
communities connect history—often unknown
and misunderstood—to today. |
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Who
Should Attend
Click below to
see an example of an event focusing on each type of audience.
Classrooms:
8-12 and university English and Social Studies
Communities:
civic, religious, and business diversity gatherings
Educators:
professional development workshops
What
You’ll Take Away
Experience
bridging divides and enabling difficult conversations through the POWER
OF STORY
Ability to
connect history to today, in order to carry its lessons forward to current
challenges
Greater
understanding of what causes prejudice and what enables change
An enhanced view of the
Civil Rights Movement--as an ongoing fight with progress and setbacks
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To schedule an
event in your school or community,
Email Susan.
Upcoming Events
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In Progress |
Meridian Reads, a community
reading program exploring community and citizenship, freedom, prejudice, and
equality—as well as the universal theme of finding our voice and what we
stand for—in two different eras:
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Back “then,” in the height of
the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, by reading
The FOG
MACHINE
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“Now,” in current times, by
reading The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas |
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June 23, 2018 |
Stories from Civil Rights History, Then and Now: Meridian, MS
at First Union Missionary Baptist Church, 1:00-4:00 |
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