Our Black History Month program will be Saturday, February 10, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. Our featured speaker this year is Lecia Brooks, who leads the Southern Poverty Law Center’s outreach (Birmingham, AL) efforts on key initiatives and social justice issues. As outreach director, she frequently gives presentations around the country to promote tolerance and diversity. She also serves as director of the Civil Rights Memorial Center in Montgomery, Ala., an interpretive center designed to provide visitors to the Civil Rights Memorial with a deeper understanding of the civil rights movement. She joined the SPLC staff in 2004 as director of Mix It Up at Lunch Day, a Teaching Tolerance program designed to help break down racial, cultural and social barriers in schools. Previously, she worked for 12 years in a number of capacities for the National Conference for Community and Justice in its Los Angeles office. She is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University.
We will begin by viewing the 30 minute version of a documentary by Sandra Jaffe titled, Our Mockingbird, which is based on Harper Lee's 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Our Mockingbird highlights the experiences of teens from two Birmingham, Alabama high schools -- one all black and one all white -- who collaborate on a production of the play, To Kill a Mockingbird.
We will begin by viewing the 30 minute version of a documentary by Sandra Jaffe titled, Our Mockingbird, which is based on Harper Lee's 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Our Mockingbird highlights the experiences of teens from two Birmingham, Alabama high schools -- one all black and one all white -- who collaborate on a production of the play, To Kill a Mockingbird.
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