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Rivers
of Change
505 John Hart Street
Jackson, Mississippi 39202
601.760.1432 (Phone)
601.960.2167 (Phone)
email:
rivers_of_change@yahoo.com
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“…we may sense that the river of
black struggle is people, but it is also the hope, the movement,
the transformative power that humans create. So we black people
are the river; the river is us. The river is in us, created by us,
flowing out of us, surrounding us, recreating us, and the entire
nation”.
-Dr. Vincent Harding
The
world knows of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and Mrs.
Rosa Parks, but people know little about the events that propelled
them to such fame and recognition. Rivers of Change: The Legacy
of Five Unheralded Women in Montgomery and their Struggle for Justice
and Dignity©” is about the struggles of five unknown
women that were instrumental in starting and ending the Montgomery
bus boycott. It is the story of women who reversed a U.S. Supreme
Court decision.
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"More Than A Bus Ride Tour" and
celebration of the
50th Anniversary of the end of segregated seating on
intra-city buses, the ending of the Montgomery Bus
Boycott, and the ending of jim crow laws in America.
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Central Missouri State University,
November 13,14
2007.
Willamette University, Portland, Oregon January
15-20, 2007
Stanford University, California January 2007
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TheTeacher Resource Kit:
More Than A Bus Ride
developed by Martha Bouyer
The curriculum guide/lesson plan "More
than a Bus Ride",
uses national standards of American history, Civics,
Government, Economics, and English Language Arts.
National standards allow the guide/lesson plan to cut
across state and curricular boundaries and serves as
an excellent tool for teachers to use as they teach about the
role of the Modern Civil Rights Movement in
reshaping the United States and making the provisions of the
Fourteenth Amendment a reality. The curriculum guide/lesson plan
focuses on the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott on the social,
judicial,
economic, and political institutions of the United States of
America. Teachers will be able to use the curriculum guide/lesson
plan to examine and
address local, state, and national issues and the importance of
civil rights and civic engagement.
developed by Martha Bouyer.
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