Amendment becomes law Crenchaw ascends Denali
James Edward Mills, Madison, WI. On this date 51 years ago the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (enacted July 2, 1964) was signed into law....
Adopted from India lived in NH
Kayla Eckhoff, Denver, CO. I was just a year old when I was adopted, I was born in India and grew up in a small...
I was there, so were friends.
Daniel Cohen Stroudsburg, PA I am so grateful that you have this exhibit. The sixties and the political movements of that time were so exciting...
Montgomery Blair HS still inspires me
Jonathan Feldman, Rochester, NY. My high school was integrated, and we took such pride in this that Stevie Wonder found out: he made a surprise...
Better to offend than not discuss
Joe Mallahan Seattle, WA As a white man raised in the United States, I have, by no choice of my own, indelible racist perspectives ingrained...
Blacks beat me, I forgave them
Bob D, West Chester, PA It happened in the summer of ’68. I was alone at a concert at the city stadium in Glen Cove,...
Perception equals reality – OPEN YOUR EYES!
Kathy Devine-Henry, Smyrna, DE. Prior to my twenty-seventh birthday, my eyes were not completely open. Up until this point I believed that Martin Luther King...
Being white makes race discussions difficult
Allen Hester Cheyenne, WY I have been involved in a speech in debate program for 5 years now (4 years in high school and 1...
Small white girl, watching heroes march
Susan Thackston, Agoura, CA. I was listening to an NPR story resently on Morning Edition. The program talked about “The Race Card Project” and that...
Crenchaw climbs Denali realizes King’s dream
James Edward Mills, Madison, WI. Fifty years ago this summer in 1964 Charles Madison Crenchaw became the first African-American to climb to the summit of...
Misreading slavery due to modern morals.
Rikki Clark, Milwaukee, WI. I teach African-American literature and folklore at the university level. Often white students will say in class how they would have...
I became an activist and prisoner
Dan Kelly San Francisco, CA I was in a Brooklyn HS in the early 60s and the images coming from the south inspired me to...
What white neighborhood has MLK high?
Karen Gold, Atlanta, GA. Collected during: Six Word Stories on Education Last fall, ProPublica and The Race Card Project teamed up with two Tuscaloosa, Ala.,...
Change comes through continous struggle MLK
Hope CA We can and must do better if we are to create the world worthy of our collective sacrifice
“Content of character is NOT color-blindness.”
Dexter H. Bridgeman Atlanta, GA In his iconic “I Have A Dream” speech, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stated the following: “I have a dream...
