Journal

Growing up in the South During Brown v. Board

Posted on March 5, 2015 by Christine Darden

I was sitting in my eighth grade classroom with 20 or so other students, mid-afternoon on May 17, 1954. I don’t recall the subject we were discussing, but the acting principal of my 12-grade school in Monroe, NC, opened the … Continue reading →

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Brown v. Board, The Little Rock Nine, and Presbyterian Public Witness

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Don Campbell

A longer version of this article originally appeared in Doing Justice, Loving Kindness, and Walking Humbly: The Witness of Some Southern Presbyterian Pastors for the Cause of Racial Harmony in the 1950s and 1960s, compiled by James S. Currie. All … Continue reading →

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Struggles and Sacrifices

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Ginna Bairby

Broken Places in our Education Systems Public Schools and the Public Good: The Social Contract We Have ‘Left Behind’, Jan Resseger “In a democracy, we are responsible, through our elected representatives, for ensuring that our public institutions distribute opportunity to … Continue reading →

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Public Schools and the Public Good

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Jan Resseger

The Social Contract We Have ‘Left Behind’ Consider this definition of justice from the Rev. J. Philip Wogaman, the retired pastor at Washington, D.C.’s Foundry United Methodist Church: “Justice is the community’s guarantee of the conditions necessary for everybody to … Continue reading →

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