We have begun preparation for Resilience Cafe, which will be held in the HTMMA Commons on Thursday, April 24th from 6:00p-7:30p. We hope to see you there!
RESILIENCE CAFE PROJECT 2008
"Out of the huts of history's shame,
I rise.
Up from a past that's rooted in pain,
I rise."
- Maya Angelou
Project Goals: To learn about resilient heroes from the past and present and to honor their resilience with a night of celebration through music, spoken word, story-telling and artwork.
History: We will be studying resilient individuals from history while focusing on African-American history, the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement.
Readings: The Resilience Reader includes “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou; “Daybreak in Alabama” & “I, too” by Langston Hughes; “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” by Frederick Douglass; “The Emancipation Proclamation” & “The Gettysburg Address” by Abraham Lincoln; The Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments; The Civil Rights Act of 1875; the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Brown vs. the Board of Education; Jackie Robinson’s Letter to the President; “A Letter from a Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King, Jr.; and Barack Obama’s Speech on Race
Writing: Poetry (in a variety of forms), Responding to Resilience Readings using S.P.E.C.S. in our College Blue Books and a Resilient Essay
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
- Confucius
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