by Drick Boyd | Jun 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
Robert Frost begins his famous poem “Mending Wall” with the words “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.” As members of Congress seem to be heading toward an agreement on immigration reform, one of the provisions that will likely be included in...
by Drick Boyd | Jun 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
Several years ago I began collecting pictures for what I call my Hall of Heroes, people through history whose lives and work have inspired me. The idea was to one day put all these pictures into one great big collage. When I started there were some obvious...
by Drick Boyd | Jun 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
During our second to last day of our Civil Rights Tour, we toured Nashville with Mr. Kwame Lillard (pictured below in front of a statue of W.E.B Dubois) who was one of the hundreds of students in the Nashville who occupied lunch counters and called for boycotts of the...
by Drick Boyd | Jun 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Today we visited Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas where in 1957 nine African American students entered the all-white high school to fulfill the dictates of the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in schools. It...
by Drick Boyd | Jun 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
Today (June 11) we visited the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, TN, which is located on the site of the Lorraine Motel (pictured below) where Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968. Dr. King was in Memphis to lend his support to black sanitation workers...
by Drick Boyd | Jun 11, 2013 | Uncategorized
Today, we visited Selma, AL, the site of a major voting rights campaign in 1964-65. Selma is best known for “Bloody Sunday” when marchers crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge heading out of Selma and were met by a wall of state troopers and local police who...
