Community Programming and Faith Communities: The Challenges and Impacts of Civil Rights Education Programming Through the National Endowment for the Humanities Created Equal Grant

Authors

  • Andrea Shan Johnson California State University, Dominguez Hills
  • Roy A Fisher University of California, Berkeley

Abstract

In this article, we reflect on our experience utilizing a faith community to host a civil rights film screening and community discussion series sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Most institutions that received this grant were secular in nature, however research shows that churches are a good place to start conversations about race in America. The short-term impacts on the congregation have already made participation in the grant worthwhile. 

 

 

Author Biographies

Andrea Shan Johnson, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Andrea Johnson is a member of the faculty of the Department of History at California State University, Dominguez Hills.

Roy A Fisher, University of California, Berkeley

Roy Fisher is a candidate for a doctorate of philosophy in Near Eastern Religions at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) and the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley. His research interests include the ways in which sacred texts, specifically those of the New Testament, are taken up in contemporary discourse.

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Published

12/08/2015

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2015)

Section

Insights, Case Studies, and Applications

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