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A LONG TRAIN RUNNING TOWARDS EXCELLENCE

Conference Highlights (subject to modifications)

Opening Service, Thursday, February 25th, 2010 (please note the date changes)

12pm-6pm - Registration and Check-in.

Movie - Intolerable Burden, produced by Constance Curry, is an award-winning film on public school desegregation and resegregation in the South. This film will show continually for people as they check-in.

4:30pm - School Day Dinner - In the black school culture during segregation, when members of the community met to discuss important issues, or to celebrate the end of the school year, the community gathered around a table to eat a common meal that had been prepared by many members of the community. This common meal reflected hospitality, collective work and investment, and intimacy, as well as a commitment from the community to play its part in moving forward the black school culture of education. (Free with evidence of registration, $5 for non-registrants.)

6:00pm - Processional - Led by Grand Marshals.  This includes teachers, administrators, students, and parents who participated in segregated schools, in addition to honorees and participants.

6:30pm - Welcome and Introduction - By Ruby Sales, Director and Founder of The SpiritHouse Project.

6:50pm - Reading of the Honor Roll of Survivors - Those who nurtured the counter-culture of black education in segregated schools, by Cheryl Blankenship, Co-Director of the SpiritHouse Project.

7:15pm - Spiritual and Social Reflection - On the deep impulse for public school education in black communities in the South, by Dr. Vincent Harding.

7:45pm - Spiritual and Social Reflection - On the deep impulse for public school education in black communities in the South, by Dr. Charles Long.

8:00pm - Reception and Exhibit of Outstanding High Schools in Georgia and Alabama - Those that were destroyed by desegregation plans.

Friday, February 26th

8:35am - Fireside Chat - With Dr. Cheryl Taylor, interviewing Dr. Julia Purnell.

9:45am - Panel Discussion - Courage, Concern, Character, Commitment, and Caring: Teachers Who Sustained Us.

1:00pm - Panel Discussion - We Learned Each Other How to Educate Our Children: The Tools, Strategies, Values and Relationships that Anchored the Counterculture of Black Public School Education During Segregation. Panelists: Mr. Michael Sales, Dr. Linda Tillman, and Dr. Vanessa Walker.

3:30pm - Panel Discussion - Where Are the Trophies and Awards That We Won: An In-Depth Look at the Cost of Desegregation. Panelists: Mrs. Rhonda Brown, Dr. Vivian Gunn Morris, and Mr. Curtis Lee Morris.

7:00pm - Healing our Losses - Preacher Ruby Sales and Songs of Struggle and Strength.

Saturday, February 27th

9:00am - Panel Discussion - Our Children Raised Up: Student Activism During the Southern Freedom Movement. Panelists include Dr. Gwendolyn Patton and Jean Wiley.

12:30pm - A Dialogue - Between foundation members, policy makers, representatives of black colleges, media, and our allies.

1:45pm-2:30pm - Closing Remarks - By Dr. Vincent Harding, Dr. Charles Long, and Ruby Sales.

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