Session 1: Review of History of Racial Injustice

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Session 1: One-Day Retreat: Community-Building & Self-Reflection
Session 2: Session 1: Review of History of Racial Injustice
Session 3: Session 2: The Middle Passage
Session 4: Session 3: Reading and Discussion of Slave Narratives
Session 5: Session 4: Convict Leasing
Session 6: Session 5: Confessing Our History of Lynching
Session 7: Session 6: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Equal Education
Session 8: Immersion Experience (to be determined by the group)
Session 9: Session 7: Theology of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Session 10: Session 8: Guest Speaker and Discerning Next (Action) Steps

This session looks at the history of racial injustice in the United States from a broad perspective. Participants put together a timeline that spans from the genocide of Native Americans through the Immigration Act of 1990. Though sessions 2-8 will focus mostly on racism as it relates to African Americans and White people, the same patterns of oppression manifest themselves over and over again, affecting other communities of color in similar ways. Session 1 seeks to introduce participants to some of those patterns, so that we can stop making the same mistakes and work together to end racial oppression in all of its forms.