A JOURNEY TO MONTGOMERY 2.0 Thursday-Monday, August 8-12, 2019

Resource Links & Suggested Reading

Renaissance Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center 201 Tallapoosa St., Montgomery AL https://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/mgmbr-renaiissance-montgomery-hotel- and-spa-at-the-convention-center/

Freedom Rides Museum https://ahc.alabama.gov/properties/freedomrides/freedomrides.aspx

Rosa Parks Museum https://www.troy.edu/student-life-resources/arts-culture/rosa- parks-museum/index.html

Mike Wiley Productions’ BREACH OF PEACE http://www.goingbarefoot.com/artist_wiley.php Video clip: https://vimeo.com/258017367

Lowndes Interpretive Center https://www.nps.gov/semo/learn/photosmultimedia/lowndes-interpretive-center.htm

National Voting Rights Museum & Institute http://nvrmi.com/

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/

NYT feature on Memorial’s opening in April 2018: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/us/lynching-memorial-alabama.html

The Legacy Museum https://eji.org/legacy-museum

Mike Wiley http://mikewileyproductions.com/

Jaki Shelton Green https://www.ncarts.org/resources/jaki-shelton-green-new-poet-laureate Video/interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6YvGwg62Bk Video/reading ’The Ransom of Bones’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr50czrNYfA

JUST MERCY, by #1 New York Times bestseller • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time

THE BLOOD OF , by Dr. Timothy B. Tyson This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the 1955 of Emmett Till—“and demands that we do the one vital thing we aren’t often enough asked to do with history: learn from it” (The Atlantic).

Bryan Stevenson’s TED Talk, 2012: We Need to Talk About an Injustice https://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_about_an_injustice?l anguage=en

Bryan Stevenson’s November 2018 acceptance speech for the Peoples’ Champion Award https://www.popsugar.com/celebrity/Bryan-Stevenson-Speech-2018-People-Choice- Awards-45481327

“A Lynching Memorial Is Opening. The Country Has Never Seen Anything Like It,” New York Times, April 25, 2018 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/us/lynching-memorial-alabama.html

“The Stain of ‘The Blood of Emmett Till’”, Los Angeles Times, March 3, 2017 https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-emmett-till-20170223- story.html

Carolina Alumni magazine feature about Mike Wiley, April 2018; Wiley was awarded the UNC Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2017: https://alumni.unc.edu/news/step-into-those-shoes/

How The Blood of Emmett Till Still Stains America Today, The Atlantic, Feb. 16, 2017; https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/516891/

AT THE DARK END OF THE STREET by Danielle McGuire "At the Dark End of the Street describes the decades of degradation black women on the Montgomery city buses endured on their way to cook and clean for their white bosses. It reveals how Rosa Parks, by 1955 one of the most radical activists in Alabama, had had enough. "There had to be a stopping place,” she said, “and this seemed to be the place for me to stop being pushed around.” Parks refused to move from her seat on the bus, was arrested and, with fierce activist Jo Ann Robinson, organized a one-day bus boycott. The protest, intended to last twenty-four hours, became a yearlong struggle for dignity and justice. It broke the back of the Montgomery city bus lines and bankrupted the company.”

The first chapter of Taylor Branch's Parting the Waters, which tells the story of Rev. Vernon Johns, King's predecessor at Dexter Street Baptist. Further down is Branch's later section, which begins on page 120 and narrates the .

Epilogue, THE BLOOD OF EMMETT TILL, Timothy Tyson

“We Are Not What We Seem” by Robin Kelley, about the bus as theater and what happened aboard Birmingham's buses during World War II

Leon Litwack's section, "Hellhounds," from TROUBLE IN MIND: BLACK SOUTHERNER IN THE AGE OF JIM CROW (pdf attached)

At the Altar of Lynching, Burning Sam Hose in the American South by Donald G. Mathews

A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern , 1882-1930 by S.E. Tolnay and E.M. Beck

At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America by Philip Dray

Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching by Paula Giddings

Lynched: The Power of Memory in a Culture of Terror by Angela D. Sims

Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940 by Amy Louise Wood

Without Sanctuary by

Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 by Grace Elizabeth Hale

The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison

The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison

Monument by Natasha Trethewey

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo (nonfiction) by Zora Neale Hurston

The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond www.pisab.org

31 Children's Books to Support Conversations on Race, Racism, and Resistance www.embracerace.org

Race Forward www.arc.org

The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin

Always in Season, Documentary Film by Jacqueline Oliver

Black Lives Matter Syllabus www.blacklivesmattersyllabus by Frank Leon Roberts

Nat Turner's Skull and My Student's Purse of Skin by Daina Ramey Berry www.nytimes.com

The Pleasures of Resistance: Enslaved Women and Body Politics in the Plantation South, 1830-1861, The Journal of Southern History, Journal article by Stephanie M.H. Camp

Belonging: A Culture of Place by Bell Hooks

How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance by Akiba Solomon, Kenrya Rankin

Palaces for The People by Eric Klinenberg

Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin

Citizen by Claudine Rankine

On a Highway East of Selma, Alabama by Gregory Orr | Poetry Foundation https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51114/on-a-highway-east-of-selma- alabama

Prophetic Encounters by Dan McKanan | PenguinRandomHouse.com https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/209101/prophetic-encounters-by-dan- mckanan/9780807013175/

Things I Didn’t Know – Note to My White Self https://notetomywhiteself.wordpress.com/2019/05/19/things-i-didnt-know/

What’s My Complicity? Talking White Fragility With Robin DiAngelo https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/summer-2019/whats-my-complicity-talking- white-fragility-with-robin-diangelo

The Penalty for Success: My Father was Lynched in Lowndes County, AL by Josephine Bolling McCall www.penaltyforsuccess.com

'Environmental Racism': How Alabama's sewage crisis is affecting the state's poorest. https://youtu.be/Iqq8omDQrJ8