February is Black History Month!

The Racial Justice Working Group at CtK invites you to join us for any of these events:

Suggestions for increasing understanding during Black History Month
Read MLK’s full “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”          https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
 
Visit the Minnesota African American Heritage Museum
1256 Penn Ave. N, Minneapolis. Free admission and parking. T-F 1pm-5pm, Sat. 10am-2pm https://www.maahmg.org/
 
Watch “A Time for Burning”, a 1966 American documentary film which explores the attempts of the minister of Augustana Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska, to persuade his all-white congregation to reach out to "negro" Lutherans in the city's north side. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrMKY2n-EPc
 
Listen to (and watch) the documentary “Listen! Please!” Testimonials from four distinguished Black Minnesota octogenarians about their definitions and experiences with systemic racism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jkRJ4Nq27k
 
Watch the 4 short sessions from PBS series “Jim Crow of the North Stories”, examples of how Minnesotans are responding to the history of racial covenants and redlining in MN. Each session is 7-12 minutes long.
https://www.pbs.org/show/jim-crow-north-stories/
 
Watch the movie, “Selma”, a 2014 movie depicting the events leading up to “Bloody Sunday” March 7, 1965 and ending with the march from Selma to Montgomery, AL. Available through many streaming services or on DVD through Ramsey County Library.
 
Read more about the use of racial covenants in Minnesota, particularly in the Twin Cities metro area, using the Mapping Prejudice website. Then find your own home property on the map to see if there has been the use of a racial covenant in your home’s history. https://mappingprejudice.umn.edu/
https://mappingprejudice.umn.edu/racial-covenants/maps-data
 
Discover several Women in the Civil Rights Movement
https://www.nps.gov/articles/women-in-the-civil-rights-movement-historic-context-statement-and-aacrn-listing-guidance-african-american-civil-rights-network.htm
 
Research some Leaders of the Civil Right movement:
Amelia Boynton Robinson
Fannie Lou Hamer
Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth 
Rev. Ralph Abernathy 
Rev. Hosea Williams 
Dorothy Height