The list below is not all-inclusive. Feel free to mix and match or come up with your own topics and questions. Julie will be happy to create a talk that meets your special needs.
“It is tragic that barriers so foolish as color differences prevent whites and Negroes from knowing and loving each other—and it is only when these barriers are destroyed that any of us can find freedom.”
Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman—that shocked the nation, and the march to James Chaney's funeral. Knowledge of the Holocaust determined the course of Mickey Schwerner's and Luke's lives.
Creating social change from the ground up
When he volunteered, Luke was a medical student at Stanford. This background gave him insight into the social determinants of health and the inequities he witnessed.
“Though secular, Jewish history and tradition had clearly made its impact on Luke. His volunteering was influenced by the Holocaust's impact on his family only 20 years before. In a touching scene, Luke's Jewish teachings and traditions come out almost by habit as he counsels and consoles his young students in Meridian as they navigate the deaths of Chaney (a student's brother) and Schwerner (a favorite teacher) … Luke's detailed notes are often scanned into the book itself, giving readers a sense of intimacy.”
“We included a reading from your book in our Haggadah this year at the Mississippi Freedom Seder (a program run by the Two Mississippi Museums and the Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life). Thank you for your (and your brother’s) words, they definitely added meaning to our community seder.”
