Comments on: Joan Mulholland: The Dean of Women Made Me Call Mom http://breachofpeace.com/blog/?p=14 Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:46:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: OpinionEditorial — Blog — On Civil Rights, Courage & Cowardice: What A Difference A Generation Makes http://breachofpeace.com/blog/?p=14&cpage=1#comment-285 OpinionEditorial — Blog — On Civil Rights, Courage & Cowardice: What A Difference A Generation Makes Fri, 28 May 2010 13:42:16 +0000 http://breachofpeace.com/blog/?p=14#comment-285 [...] Ta-Nehisi Coates, a police mugshot of civil rights worker Joan Trumpauer Mulholland and a link to the fascinating website for the book Breach of Peace is making the blogospheric [...] [...] Ta-Nehisi Coates, a police mugshot of civil rights worker Joan Trumpauer Mulholland and a link to the fascinating website for the book Breach of Peace is making the blogospheric [...]

]]> By: Sally Gabb http://breachofpeace.com/blog/?p=14&cpage=1#comment-185 Sally Gabb Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:07:41 +0000 http://breachofpeace.com/blog/?p=14#comment-185 Thanks for this website and your comments, Rachel! I also was in the Sit Ins through Duke. I was at Duke from 1962 - 1966. Thanks to campus leaders such as Charlotte Bunch and Sarah Evans, I was encouraged to join in these important actions. I feel privileged to have been there, and to have had the opportunity to learn the extent and results of the segregation system. As a result of my activism, I have continued to work with anti racist efforts throughout my life. I became an adult literacy specialist, and worked many years in Atlanta GA before moving to Providence RI. I currently work with underprepared students, including many students of color, at Bristol Community College. I have focused my anti racism work through education. Last week I visited Geensboro for an educational conference. A colleague and I visited NC A&T, and walked the route to the Woolworths. We also visited the excellent exhibit at the Greensboro Historical Society. I would love to read your thesis, Rachel - it is exciting that young scholars are continuing to keep the history alive. Thanks for this website and your comments, Rachel! I also was in the Sit Ins through Duke. I was at Duke from 1962 – 1966. Thanks to campus leaders such as Charlotte Bunch and Sarah Evans, I was encouraged to join in these important actions. I feel privileged to have been there, and to have had the opportunity to learn the extent and results of the segregation system.

As a result of my activism, I have continued to work with anti racist efforts throughout my life. I became an adult literacy specialist, and worked many years in Atlanta GA before moving to Providence RI. I currently work with underprepared students, including many students of color, at Bristol Community College. I have focused my anti racism work through education.

Last week I visited Geensboro for an educational conference. A colleague and I visited NC A&T, and walked the route to the Woolworths. We also visited the excellent exhibit at the Greensboro Historical Society.

I would love to read your thesis, Rachel – it is exciting that young scholars are continuing to keep the history alive.

]]> By: Rachel Duke http://breachofpeace.com/blog/?p=14&cpage=1#comment-68 Rachel Duke Mon, 27 Oct 2008 00:18:03 +0000 http://breachofpeace.com/blog/?p=14#comment-68 I am a history student at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, NC. I am writing my honors thesis on white, southern citizens who supported the Civil Rights Movement. I was born in Alabama in 1971. I have long been drawn to this area of our history, beginning with slavery and continuing with the great divide that still exist in our country. Thanks to Ms. Mulholland, and others like her, I now know that while it is likely I would have been a racist, or at the very least indifferent to the topic of racism, it is possible that I would have rejected what society offered me. I want to say thank you! For so long I have felt guilty and couldn't understand exactly why. Maybe I don't have to. I am a history student at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, NC. I am writing my honors thesis on white, southern citizens who supported the Civil Rights Movement. I was born in Alabama in 1971. I have long been drawn to this area of our history, beginning with slavery and continuing with the great divide that still exist in our country. Thanks to Ms. Mulholland, and others like her, I now know that while it is likely I would have been a racist, or at the very least indifferent to the topic of racism, it is possible that I would have rejected what society offered me. I want to say thank you! For so long I have felt guilty and couldn’t understand exactly why. Maybe I don’t have to.

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