Pilgrimage

Virginia Humanities Director of African American Programming Justin Reid takes With Good Reason Producer Cass Adair to the site where historians believe a white mob lynched John Henry James in 1898.

In 2018, a hundred Charlottesville residents traveled to Montgomery, Alabama, to memorialize his death and commit to fighting white supremacy. Professor and organizer Jalane Schmidt talk us through Charlottesville’s Civil Rights Pilgrimage.

At the Center for Civil and Human Rights museum in Atlanta, visitors have an opportunity to experience what it felt like to integrate lunch counters in the US South. Susan Bro and Kathryn Laughon explain their experience at the exhibit, and how it reminded them of the white supremacist attacks in Charlottesville in 2017.

Bryan Stephenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, speaks to Charlottesville city residents in Montgomery, Alabama.

Three Virginia teachers at the Kellogg Summer Teaching Institute share successful strategies for combatting racism in public schools.

For teachers in Charlottesville, August is an opportunity to reflect on how their classrooms have changed since the white supremacist attacks on August 11 and 12, 2017, and how they plan to teach race going forward. Anne Ernst and Rachel Caldwell discuss racial healing in the classroom.

Young adult author Nic Stone describes her transformative visit to Charlottesville public schools.