Truth-telling as Healing: Will We Answer Dr. King’s Call?
by Reggie Jackson and Dr. Fran Kaplan
Nurturing Diversity Partners, info@nurturingdiversity.us
January 20, 2019
Recommended Resources for further learning:
Books
Cameron, James. A Time of Terror: A Survivor’s Story. 3rd edition edited by Fran Kaplan
Irving, Debby. Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race
Hagerman, Margaret A. White Kids: Growing Up with Privilege in a Racially Divided America
Landrieu, Mitch. In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History
Loewen, James W. Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Stephenson, Bryan. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Documentary Film
I Am Not Your Negro, directed by Raoul Peck.
Creative documentary reveals the prophetic words and career of writer James Baldwin in the context of the Civil Rights Movement and the murders of its leaders: Dr. King, Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X.
Online
About the Milwaukee Lynching of Marshall Clark:
Cunningham, Maria and Jordan E. Davis. How Does A City Choose to Remember Its Past? https://abhmuseum.org/rememberance/
Public Hearing to Determine Lynching Landmark https://abhmuseum.org/public-hearing-to-determine-if-george-marshall-clarks-lynching-site-will-be-added-as-landmark/
Jackson, Reggie. LIVING WHILE BLACK” SHOWS WHAT WHITE DEMOCRATS CAN LEARN FROM LAME-DUCK SESSION http://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/featured/reggie-jackson-living-while-black-shows-what-white-democrats-can-learn-from-lame-duck-session/
Kaplan, Fran. A WITNESS TO TRUTH: THE EXPERIENCE OF VISITING THE NEW NATIONAL LYNCHING MEMORIAL. http://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/articles/a-witness-to-truth-the-experience-of-visiting-the-new-national-lynching-memorial/
King, Martin Luther. Letter from a Birmingham Jail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHnKeajhoIw
Loewen, James. Wausau as a probably sundown town — https://sundown.tougaloo.edu/sundowntownsshow.php?id=581