Five days until Freedom Tour 2007 begins! I'm backing up computer files, checking camera batteries, and trying to finish at least two chapters before Saturday. I want to be ready to meet all of the Choir members.
When I was a kid on the farm, I watched the civil rights movement unfold on the evening news, horrified and fascinated and inspired at the same time. I wanted to go south then, to march with Dr. King and with James Meredith, but I was too young. Now, 40+ years later, I will walk where they walked.
Time out for Mardi Gras!
Visiting the French Quarter in New Orleans
At the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis
CCC at Soulsville in Memphis
CCC at Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery
16th Street Baptist Church
This church was a rallying point for the civil rights movement. In 1963, it was bombed, killing four young girls. On the street outside, police put dogs on protesters, knocked them down with water cannons, beat and arrested them. And in this sacred space, the Chicago Children's Choir sang.
Millennium Park 2007
Millenium Park 2007
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