Foster Dickson: Taking the Time: Young Writers and Old Stories
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).
Taking the Time: Young Writers and Old Stories is a full-length, student-written Civil Rights history book, which was released in August 2005. The project was conducted during the 2004-2005 school year to explore the opportunities for commemoration that existed in 2005, the year of the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest and the 40th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery March. Teaching in Montgomery, and in a school named for one the great American leaders for equal rights for all people, Foster Dickson led his students through interviews -- some in groups and some individually -- with such major figures in the movement as Claudette Colvin, Robert and Jeannie Graetz, and John Seigenthaler, as well as other locals who either witnessed or participated in the movement.
Supporters of the project included the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Gannett Foundation, the Montgomery Advertiser, and the Rosa Parks Library and Museum.
All of the interviews tapes from the project are archived in the Special Collections of the Trenholm State Technical College Library , with Dr. Gwen Patton.
The website for the project (www.takingthetime.org) was discontinued in 2010. For any information about Taking the Time, contact Foster Dickson.
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).
Taking the Time: Young Writers and Old Stories is a full-length, student-written Civil Rights history book, which was released in August 2005. The project was conducted during the 2004-2005 school year to explore the opportunities for commemoration that existed in 2005, the year of the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest and the 40th anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery March. Teaching in Montgomery, and in a school named for one the great American leaders for equal rights for all people, Foster Dickson led his students through interviews -- some in groups and some individually -- with such major figures in the movement as Claudette Colvin, Robert and Jeannie Graetz, and John Seigenthaler, as well as other locals who either witnessed or participated in the movement.
Supporters of the project included the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Gannett Foundation, the Montgomery Advertiser, and the Rosa Parks Library and Museum.
All of the interviews tapes from the project are archived in the Special Collections of the Trenholm State Technical College Library , with Dr. Gwen Patton.
The website for the project (www.takingthetime.org) was discontinued in 2010. For any information about Taking the Time, contact Foster Dickson.