12 Things I Saw, Heard and Tasted at Selma's 2006 Bridge Crossing Jubilee
- An 8-year-old girl with a grille
- Willie Nell Fail Avery, a veteran of the Marion Movement, marching in the Bloody Sunday re-enactment and telling us, "We're still struggling"
- Crips throwing up gang signs and waving blue bandanas in the same place where non-violent civil rights activists marched 41 years ago
- Al Sharpton's perm
- Deep-fried gator on a stick (delicious)
- Andrew Young calling 95-year-old Amelia Boynton Robinson "fine"
- Gospel singer Dottie Peeples singing "Beat It" on stage. (I guess even church ladies can't resist a good Michael Jackson song.)
- Bored teen girls (wearing sunglasses at 9:00 p.m. indoors) talking on cell phones while seldom-recognized elders of the Movement received awards
- Spoken word poets from Milwaukee ripping it up on the steps of Brown Chapel AME church
-Rick Lowe, founder of Project Row Houses, representing for H-town
- Rutha Harris, perhaps THE voice of the SNCC Freedom Singers, leading "I Woke Up This Morning" at the Dallas County Courthouse
- Chuck D, a recipient of the Freedom Flame Award, saying that the South gave the United States the best food, the best music and the best leaders in history
posted by Tyina Steptoe @ 11:32 AM
3 Comments:
Heyyy!!!
Charles' blog tipped me off about this blog. I'm just passin' through, sayin' hi and all! I am so excited for you to be back in Selma. It sounds like you've jumped right into things!! Besides working at the voting rights museum, what else are you guys up to? When will you be back? I'm going to do some traveling in the South in mid June--probably New Orleans and Hattiesburg. Will you and Jerome still be in Selma, or will you be back in Madison? I'd love to see you!!
By the way, the writing and storytelling on this blog is really amazing. I am so impressed and so proud to say I know you!!
Have fun! Hope to see you soon,
danielle
"The truth is, we've been Yankee-fied." Mission accomplished. All those grilled brats apparently paid off.
We miss Jerome and you in Madison but LONE STAR IN SELMA looks like it will be the next best thing. (And what writing! So honest, poetic.)
Y'all don't recycle in Houston? Seriously? In Madison schools, we spent like a whole semester in fourth grade learning how to know our "2" plastics from our "3" plastics, and how to removed pop-can tops safely without cutting our fingers. 'course, we never learned about the Alamo so we had some extra time on our hands.
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Joe
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