Thursday October 28, 2004
October 27, 2004
Class wasn’t anything exciting – working at MLKPP was. Reading the documents is actually a lot of fun, even though most of it is administrative letters such as “Let’s meet here,” or “I’d be wonderful if you could speak here,” or “We’re thinking about having a conference here.” However, as I continue to enter in documents from the SCLC archives, I’ve come across a few good ones. Today there was a letter from first-grade students at an elementary school in Pennslyvania – they wrote a really nice letter saying how they are very upset that black churches were burned in the South, and then went on to say how they had a fundraiser in the school, where they sold caramel apples, cookies, and other sweets. Enclosed with the letter was all the money they raised and at the bottom were all their signatures, in the cute way that first graders write. What’s unfortunate is that this letter is never going to get published and never be seen except by data entry people like myself. It’s quite unfortunate, that so much of history is determined by the magnitude of an event, or by the victors in conflict. Yet, sometimes these small seemingly insignificant things can say so much about a struggle – here the contribution by first graders to the civil rights movement; well, I don’t think it deserves any further explanation. I just find it amazing.
Rest of the night = reading Pox Americana.
aww, that was sweet