Join our February Meetup: The role of ordinary people in history
The Mission US Meetup is a monthly meeting where educators and experts get together to discuss a pertinent social studies topic. At this month’s meetup, we’ll focus on the role of ordinary people in history, and how it influenced the development of No Turning Back.
We’ll be joined by special guest Pamela N. Walker, PhD, Assistant Professor of African American History at the University of Vermont and lead advisor for No Turning Back. Dr. Walker received her PhD in African American and Women’s history from Rutgers University and her work examines motherhood, race, activism, benevolence, ideas about the “South,” epistolary writing and political consciousness in 1960s-era social movement networks. She is currently working on a book titled Signed, Sealed, Delivered: How Black and White Mothers used the Box Project and the Postal System to Fight Hunger and Feed the Mississippi Freedom Movement, which tells a new and illuminating story of ordinary Black and white women’s overlooked participation in the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Join us for the discussion on Monday, February 10th from 7:00-8:00 PM Eastern Time!
Registration Link: https://wnet.zoom.us/meeting/register/1PkSwnd7QzyYAxTk2sNrnQ
