“The grandmother of the Movement”, Septima Clark
Indeed any discussion of the Civil Rights movement must include this formidable woman. She is in the center of the photo above, and it takes place on Johns Isla...
Indeed any discussion of the Civil Rights movement must include this formidable woman. She is in the center of the photo above, and it takes place on Johns Isla...
Charleston became the biggest slave port in America, selling about half the Africans bought into the American colonies. There were many marked and unmarked ante...
The drive from Atlanta through to the east coast of Georgia was long. We left far too late, after drinking delicious but overpriced coffee and avocado with poac...
It’s nearly impossible to be in Atlanta and not feel the ghosts of the civil rights movement — and for good reason. Atlanta is the home of the movement an...
Today I drove from Birmingham, Alabama to Atlanta, Georgia by myself. As I drove, I listened to Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History podcast about the Civil R...
This blog post is probably the hardest to write so far. I am filled to the brim with ideas, thoughts, and frustrations. Writing a blog is harder than I thought,...
Today was spent in the Alabama capital of Montgomery, in many ways the most significant place in the Civil Rights Movement. This is where activist Rosa Parks r...
If there is anything that I take away from these brief days in Mississippi and Alabama it is the need to speak the truth more openly. Ida B Wells stated: “The w...
There were more Baptists churches in the Mississippi Delta than I had ever seen before. Like the joke Jews make about shuls, I was wondering if there was the Ba...
Between 1810-1860 a quarter million slaves were brought into Mississippi. For a brief, hopeful moment after the Civil War, the state began to reflect considerab...