nonprofit organizations like homeless prenatal projects, hamilton family, edible schoolyard, and the ella baker centre, and she also initiated a regular lecture series entitled on arts, with proceeds going directly to the scholarship component of a 26 valencia's college and career readiness program. and whereas, until 2012, city arts and lectures have the programs of the herb theater and when it was announced that they would close for retrofitting, she identified the long abandoned north auditorium at 275 hayes street as the ideal site for arts and lectures and events going forward. and upon receiving approval from the school district, she obtained funding for and oversaw the 2 million-dollar renovation, which brought the 1600 seat theater back to life after being shattered for overflow from decades. and since its renovation, the theater has served not only as the site for a city arts and lecture events, but also for many other local mountain -- nonprofits and orts --dash arts organizations in need of a venue and whereas family, friends in the broadly defined arts community near and far were gr

martin luther king and others but would not necessarily go to women like ella baker who was a longtime activist who birthed the movement or diane nash who was a leader in the sit in movement and the committee who held leadership positions. dorothy hite who was the head of the national council of women who wanted to have a voice. for the master narrative in the way that men were see as being the only ones who had something to say and garnering the media attention obscured women from these particular narratives. so i think it is important for us to think about the ways that physical violence, sexual violence, black women's roles as mothers in the movement, black women's economic and labor constraints, how all of those things in the everyday life help to propel them toward activism that looks different than much of the activism that is in the master narrative. what we are going to do now is begin to look at the reading and look at some specific examples of black women's activism. we are going to look at the memoir, coming of age in mississippi and we are going to look at a chapter that yo

recall ella baker at the founding. she gives this talk called bigger than a hamburger. the first part of her speech, she said the student leadership conference made it clear that current sit-ins and other demonstrations are concerned with something much bigger than a hamburger or even a giant sized coke. what ever may be the difference in approach to their goal, the negro and white american students, north and south, are seeking to rid america of the scourge of racial segregation and discrimination, not only at lunch counters but in every aspect of life. there is a misconception that it was simply about wanting to eat in the same space. what we find especially through the stories of davis and some of the stories that involved terrell's committee is it is about being treated as first class citizens both in labor and as a consumer. to be able to enter a place and be respected, to try on clothes, to return clothes, to be able to eat. to be able that once you stand in line, at one point in time, if you are an african-american and you came into a store and he stood in line i

i bring you words from sister ella baker, who said we who believe in freedom must never rest.remind usords that it is good when the sisters and a few good men get together. us, notis important for just in the women's march of 2019, that this share we bring .n agenda with us it is one thing to protest, and we need protest to remind the people with special titles that the every day people of this country will not have our voices suppressed or depressed. we stand out. -- up. not just to protest the white house or the halls of unionss, but state of the matters but state of the street matters more. [applause] happening in the state of the streets right now at this we have almost one million of our sisters and brothers who are not receiving their paychecks go somebody decided to have a temper tantrum. the state of the streets says that to understand that folks need to eat every day, pay their mortgage, get their medicine, and a live every day. submit to the folks who are blessed enough to walk halls of congress because we gave them the power to our votes that they all need to be in