When I attended the three day webinar at the end of the year, I was pleasantly surprised to see a panel stage, of the following speakers, reminding me of an important historical event. I took notes and this is my best for you. I was so in awe!
Dr Milba Beals was born in 1941, a time when black people didn’t matter. All consider the historical record to carry and without it we perish.
Mrs Brown - Trickey : She went into Social Work as a profession. When she was 15 & 16, experiences helped her with other people.
National Guard and crowd. She looked at a mob and felt she would not lose her intelligence and humanity.
Mrs Green, feels she has has helped the voices of people of colour, all over the world.
Mrs Brown - “if I didn’t do it, who will?” Experiences at Central High gave her the experiences for that. Part of her strategy was looking at the participants of the mob. “We each had our resources to survive.” Didn’t tell parents very much. “I don’t know what the other eight did but I would go home and my parents would ask how did the day go -tell my parents fine.” “What are kids talking about that they are not sharing?”
Dr Roberts - Resilience: “You may have opportunity to grow.
Mrs Green (sp) “ We have success with problem. “We stood as a group. We supported each other.”
Hats off to the parents.
Story of Courage - Mrs Colotta (sp) - Hers was to go to college (thinks she had PTSD). For 2 1/2 years so much happened. Professors and counsellors were not available to her. Dreams of being a doctor vanished. For thirty years she did not speak of her time at Little Rock. Writing my book, My Journey to Little Rock really helped.
Betsy - “Felt like a misfit.” She has a record of being arrested for advocacy. She didn’t have a book. Had no understanding of mental health. Lived with two psychiatrists and tried to make change. Still does but in a different way. That is, she works at her mental health.
Mr Green grew up with a family of school teachers.
- Mrs Melba Brooks - “One important balance during that year and beyond has been air our contact and trust with each other. And the times that we have gotten together has been extraordinary.”
“Our parents had our backs. The community of the coloured and I had the opportunities. May 1957, the King came to our graduation.
Trickeny: “We were 14 and 15 years old. Now 84, we talk about it being an American story but it was a world story.
Question: “ How did you manage to stay together - after 30 year anniversary at Little Rock.
“We went through a lot in 1957. After 30 th anniversary- a continuous. 68 years later and we’re still talking about it -“a life sentence”.
Melba Beans: “We all met with Dr King, whereby he listened patiently and composed us by advising we were doing this for years yet unborn.” “I believe we were attached because we could not talk to our parents.”
“ We can walk down the street thanks to you.”
Tichey - she met with schools in New Zealand. “Our kids need to be encouraged. Prefers to talk to young people - want to learn. Old people - they think you want to change their mind. “All the progress seen in the last 70 years is being taken away. It’s hurtful and harmful. Books being banned. Get list and go out and buy them.
Melba Beals - Warriors Don’t Cry “I called my book that because most of all, must march. FORWARD complaining very little or not at all. “Keeping our eyes on the Prize.
“AS LONG AS ONE OF US IS NOT FREE, ALL OF US ARE NOT FREE!!!!!!”
I have posted a video for you below.
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