Foster Dickson: The Montgomery Children's Walk in 2005
Foster Dickson is a writer, editor and teacher in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the author of three books: Kindling Not Yet Split (Court Street Press, 2002), I Just Make People Up: Ramblings with Clark Walker (NewSouth Books, 2009), and The Life and Poetry of John Beecher (Edwin Mellen Press, 2009), and the general editor of Treasuring Alabama's Black Belt (AUM/AHF, 2009).
Foster Dickson, his wife Vicki, and their daughter (in the carrier)
at the Alabama state capitol during the 2005 Montgomery Children's Walk
The Montgomery Children's Walk was an event held on December 1, 2005, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the arrest of Rosa Parks. When lead organizers Wayne Sabel and Marisha Woodham realized that neither the city of Montgomery or the Montgomery Public Schools were making efforts to include young people in a rememberance of Rosa Parks' actions, they took it on themselves to put together a committee to organize an event. As a teacher himself, Foster Dickson was the curriculum development chairman on the organizing committee, arranging teacher roundtables for feedback on the plans and developing related support materials for educators. The realization of the group's efforts was marching about 4,000 school children from the Rosa Parks Library and Museum (on the site of her arrest) up to the state capitol for speakers and presentations. The event was covered in major news sources, including The New York Times.
Foster Dickson is a writer, editor and teacher in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the author of three books: Kindling Not Yet Split (Court Street Press, 2002), I Just Make People Up: Ramblings with Clark Walker (NewSouth Books, 2009), and The Life and Poetry of John Beecher (Edwin Mellen Press, 2009), and the general editor of Treasuring Alabama's Black Belt (AUM/AHF, 2009).
Foster Dickson, his wife Vicki, and their daughter (in the carrier)
at the Alabama state capitol during the 2005 Montgomery Children's Walk
The Montgomery Children's Walk was an event held on December 1, 2005, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the arrest of Rosa Parks. When lead organizers Wayne Sabel and Marisha Woodham realized that neither the city of Montgomery or the Montgomery Public Schools were making efforts to include young people in a rememberance of Rosa Parks' actions, they took it on themselves to put together a committee to organize an event. As a teacher himself, Foster Dickson was the curriculum development chairman on the organizing committee, arranging teacher roundtables for feedback on the plans and developing related support materials for educators. The realization of the group's efforts was marching about 4,000 school children from the Rosa Parks Library and Museum (on the site of her arrest) up to the state capitol for speakers and presentations. The event was covered in major news sources, including The New York Times.