On The Bus Uw Civil Rights Pilgrimage - The House Of Podcasts

Prologue: Kane Hall February 23rd- Anticipation, Trepidation, Empowerment and SongMonday, February 23rd, at the UW's Kane Hall, where David Domke and friends deliver the last of 5 lectures on the Civil Rights era and Selma Alabama. 52 strong, we are getting ready to travel on a bus from Atlanta to Montgomery and points in between. Hundreds strong this evening, we are gathered to think about the history of the movement. But we are also gathered to be challenged to think about the movement today, because the battles are still being fought and the outcome is far from certain.   The bus is warming up. We mingle in an integrated waiting room.Black and white, young and old, we are joined by our hopes and fears, but we are together.  In a not too distant past, we would not have been together.  We would have waited apart, whites in one room, blacks in another.  This unnatural division, built on fear and hate, shaped the culture and shaped the souls of the people wh