This course invites us to look at our country’s past, and consider how it has shaped what is going on today. Join Jean and Steve Godsall-Myers for a presentation on the humbling and sobering “civil rights journey” that they took in June 2021. Their itinerary included stops along the Eastern shore of Maryland, in Wilmington, North Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, and what is known as the “civil rights triangle” of Montgomery, Selma, and Birmingham, Alabama. They stopped in Nashville and Clinton, Tennessee, Hardy and Farmville, Virginia, and Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia before ending the trip right here in Lansdale for the town’s Juneteenth celebration.

About the instructors: Jean and Steve Godsall-Myers

Jean and Steve Godsall-Myers both recall being in high school during the 1960s and have given attention in recent years to studying events they had “heard about” during that time. Jean is a retired German professor and Steve is a retired Lutheran pastor. Together they served as co-directors of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Wittenberg Center. They are an active part of the Racial Justice Learning Group at Salford Mennonite Church.