Alabama Odyssey 2011

Alabama Odyssey Day 7

This trip really isn’t about the Civil Rights Movement of the 50’s and 60’s; it is about the battle today.  Not all of our battles are about black and white.  They will be about poverty, good education, jobs, food, and raising people up.  Like Bob Mants said, each generation has its own race to run and this Odyssey is more about the present than the past.
- Paige

There will always be ups and downs, but I want to help to make more ups and less downs.
- Alex

Changing the world for the better has just become one of my life’s goals.
- Katie

“What are you gonna do?  Would you help your neighbor, or someone abroad?  Would you have marched?”  Such soul-searching inquiries could not have been asked by people I looked up to more.  Their past gave my present a reason to look forward to the future.
- Michaela

Click to Play HMMS and BAMA Kids singing together in Camden

Click to Play our final sing in Selma

Sheryl Threadgill Mathews – our host in Camden

Katie lunches with the Camden Chief of Police

We lunch with many officials from Camden and Wilcox County

Ms. Kittie the owner of Ms. Kittie's restaurant, a soul food wonder

Wynona says goodbye to Mary Lee Bendolph, who surprised us by meeting us in Camden

Black Belt Treasures, an artist coop

McKenzie and Mary Lee look at the quilts at Black Belt Treasures

Pen Pals: Kristen Pettway and Maeve Campman

Elkanah gives her speech at Antioch Baptist Church

Colin gives his speech at Antioch Baptist Church

Making wishes and commitments to stop child abuse by tying ribbons on a tree with the BAMA Kids

We spend time with the BAMA Kids singing, sharing speeches, and reciting poetry

We go to Snow Hill Institute

We spend time with Donald Stone

We play a moonlight Ultimate Frisbee with kids from Camden at the Snow Hill Institute

Good Night