Session 6: The Struggle for Equal Education

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Session 1: One-Day Retreat: Community-Building & Self-Reflection
Session 2: Session 1: The Big Picture of Racial Injustice
Session 3: Session 2: The Middle Passage
Session 4: Session 3: Recovering the Voices of the Enslaved
Session 5: Session 4: From Convict Leasing to Mass Incarceration
Session 6: Session 5: Acknowledging Our History of Lynching
Session 7: Session 6: The Struggle for Equal Education
Session 8: Immersion Experience (to be determined by the group)
Session 9: Session 7: The True Theology of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Session 10: Session 8: Seeking Restoration (and Guest Speaker)

Seeks to honor those who, during the Civil Rights Movement, resisted returning violence for violence but instead used nonviolent action to insist on their rights, particularly as it relates to equal access to educational opportunities.