Foster Dickson: More Than A Century Later
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).
More Than A Century Later: 21st Century Student Perspectives on Alabama's 1901 Constitution is a full-length edited collection of samples from student-written essays, which was released in May 2008. The project was a collaboration among Foster Dickson, BTW social studies teacher Ray Morton and BTW's law magnet instructor DeShannon McDonald. The purpose of the project was to have high school students engage the state's constitution in different ways -- the creative writing students through interviews with family and friends, the government students through guest speakers, and the law students through directed study of single aspects -- and to collect their responses into a cohesive whole.
Alabama's 1901 constitution is the longest state constitution in America with about 800 amendments to date. The structure of the document concentrates power in the state legislature and denies "home rule" to counties and municipalities.
Foster Dickson edited the book along with two of his creative writing students. The printing of the book was made possible by a discretionary grant from Alabama state senator Quinton Ross.
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).
More Than A Century Later: 21st Century Student Perspectives on Alabama's 1901 Constitution is a full-length edited collection of samples from student-written essays, which was released in May 2008. The project was a collaboration among Foster Dickson, BTW social studies teacher Ray Morton and BTW's law magnet instructor DeShannon McDonald. The purpose of the project was to have high school students engage the state's constitution in different ways -- the creative writing students through interviews with family and friends, the government students through guest speakers, and the law students through directed study of single aspects -- and to collect their responses into a cohesive whole.
Alabama's 1901 constitution is the longest state constitution in America with about 800 amendments to date. The structure of the document concentrates power in the state legislature and denies "home rule" to counties and municipalities.
Foster Dickson edited the book along with two of his creative writing students. The printing of the book was made possible by a discretionary grant from Alabama state senator Quinton Ross.