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  Adult Education Summer Studies - 2008
The Church & Civil Rights : Then & Now!

Summer Studies Participants
 
AUDIO RECORDINGS AND ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Sunday, June 1 - Ralph Luker - Rev. Vernon Johns' Influence on Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Books by Ralph Luker
Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement; The Social Gospel in Black and White:  American Racial Reform, 1885-1912

Sermon by Vernon Johns
Transfigured Moments

Sunday, June 8 - Constance Curry - What made young white women cross the color line?
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  Books by Constanace Curry
Silver Rights
Deep In Our Hearts:  Nine White Women In The Freedom Movement
 
Sunday, June 15 - Doug Blackmon - Slavery in America did not end with the Civil War
  Book by Doug Blackmon
Slavery by Another Name
 
Sunday, June 22 - Charlie Richards, host - Atlanta Manifesto and pastors then and now
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On October 6, 2007, NPR's Morning Edition included a segment entitled "In Manifesto, Ministers United Against Intolerance." For the audio and transcript of this broadcast, follow this link.

To read more about the Ministers' Manifesto from the New Georgia Encyclopedia website, click here.

To read McDowell Richards' sermon from October 14, 1940, entitled "Brothers in Black," click here.

To read additional information about the Ministers' Manifesto, click here for the materials distributed during the presentation.

Sunday, June 29 - A Panel of Central Members - Central Members Remember Central Church and Dr.
  King's Funeral
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Sunday, July 6 - Gary Rowe, host - Oral Histories of the Movement: Scholars and Activists
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Sunday, July 13 - The Revered Joseph Roberts - Rev. Roberts and His Calling
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Sunday, July 20 - Lynn Huntley & Lawrence Neale Jones - The Legal Community & The Civil Rights Movement;
  The Churches & The Civil Rights Movement
   
Sunday, July 27 - The Hon. Andrew Young - The Roots of the Civil Rights Movement and the Church's Voice Today
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Sunday, August 3 - Sam Zamarripa & Robin Zamarripa- Immigration Policies and Civil Rights Today
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Sunday, August 10 - C.T. Vivian and Gerald Durley - Civil Rights and Faith in Action Today
   
Sunday, August 17 - Panel with Constance Curry & Doug Ammar - Schools to Prisons Pipeline