Meridian Reads
Across Meridian, community members
can brush up on history and current
events and begin to think about what
they’ll see and hear at “Stories
from Civil Rights History, Then and
Now: Meridian, MS” by reading two
novels. Each is appropriate for 8th
grade and beyond. Each is by a
Mississippi author.
Readers can consider questions of
community and citizenship, freedom,
prejudice, and equality—as well as
the universal theme of finding our
voice and what we stand for. The two
“Meridian Reads” selections explore
all this in two different eras:
The
FOG
MACHINE
by Susan Follett
Discussion Guide
In the epicenter of the Civil Rights
Movement, a 12-year-old white
Catholic girl, a young black Baptist
woman who flees to Chicago, and a
Jewish Freedom Summer volunteer from
New York each question what freedom
means and the price they’ll pay to
have it.
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
Discussion Guide
Half a century later, a 16-year-old
black girl who witnesses the fatal
shooting of her childhood best
friend by police searches for her
voice amid racism, police brutality,
discrimination, and prejudice.
Thank
You
With immense gratitude to all those
individuals who have envisioned,
encouraged, planned, resourced, and
supported “Stories from Civil Rights
History, Then and Now: Meridian, MS”
and “Meridian Reads.”
Co-Sponsors
Credits
Hosting venue:
First
Union Missionary Baptist Church
Welcoming remarks by:
Mayor
Percy Bland and Rev.
Melvin L. Hendricks
Slide Images: Mark Levy, Donna Garde,
Alan Reich, and Gail Falk. Used by
permission.
Performing artists: Sweet Spirits
Inspirational Choir,
Richelle
Putnam, and the Unity
Dancers choreographed by Janet Moore
Panelists:
Councilman Weston Lindemann,
Sadie Clark Martin, Eric Porter, and
Susan Follett
Funding
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10 print copies and a
single-use eBook license of
The
FOG MACHINE
and The Hate U Give have
been added to the
Meridian-Lauderdale County
Public Library
collection courtesy of the
Mississippi Library Commission
and the Mississippi Center for
the Book. |
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