Remembering the Dream 2020

Podcast episodes

  • Remembering the Dream: An Introduction

    Remembering the Dream was inspired by six visits I made to the American South as a part of intergenerational, interracial groups who got on a bus and visited sites, heard stories, and sang songs important to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s and 60’s.
    Mike Kirkland ~ Songs & Stories From Home Episode 36 ~ Mark Pearson Music

  • Emmett Till

    The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s and 60’s became part of the American consciousness 55 years ago when a 14-year-old boy, Emmett Till, was kidnapped, tortured, and killed by two white men.
    Mike Kirkland ~ Songs & Stories From Home Episode 37 ~ Mark Pearson Music

  • Little Rock

    The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950’s and 60’s needs to be studied and celebrated and remembered by all Americans because as much as any time in our history that moment helped bring us closer to who, I believe, we were meant to be...
    Little Rock ~ Songs & Stories From Home Episode 38 ~ Mark Pearson Music

  • Montgomery Bus Boycott

    This great American Story, the story of the Civil Rights Movement, is about making the American Dream more real for all Americans. It’s about the continued desire for true economic justice and meaningful racial justice. 

    Montgomery Bus Boycott ~ Songs & Stories From Home Episode 39 ~ Mark Pearson Music

  • Highlander

    At this moment the killing of George Floyd has put people back on the streets and the struggle for racial equality back on the front page. Perhaps this can be the time when our country with its long history of racism finally rises to the challenge and begins to create a system based on racial justice that will include social justice, economic justice, earth justice, and restorative justice.
    Highlander ~ Songs & Stories From Home Episode 40 ~ Mark Pearson Music

  • Sit Ins at Lunch Counters

    As I share this Podcast in June of 2020, we are at a moment in our nation’s history when we have a chance to take another step forward and make more real the ideal of what this country is founded on. That is the idea that we are all created equal and in the eyes of the creator are all equally precious.
    Sit Ins at Lunch Counters ~ Songs & Stories From Home Episode 41 ~ Mark Pearson Music

  • SNCC

    As someone who came of age during the Civil Rights Movement of the 50’s and 60’s it is inspiring to me on many levels to watch the youth of this country demanding we form a more perfect union, a more just and equitable America.
    SNCC ~ Songs & Stories From Home Episode 42 ~ Mark Pearson Music

  • Freedom Rides

    George Santayana famously wrote that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Freedom Rides ~ Songs & Stories From Home Episode 43 ~ Mark Pearson Music

  • Stories Abound

    As a nation we are looking again at ideas and ideals found in the scriptures and embedded in our founding documents. Beginning with the proposition that we are all created equal, and in the eyes of the creator are all equally precious.
    Stories Abound ~ Songs & Stories From Home Episode 44 ~ Mark Pearson Music

  • Birmingham

    In the Spring of 1963, I turned sixteen years old while thousands of students my age were taking to the streets in Birmingham, Alabama to protest institutional racism in their city.
    Birmingham ~ Songs & Stories From Home Episode 45 ~ Mark Pearson Music

  • June 11, 1963

    This Black Lives Matter moment in 2020 America is different in some significant ways from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s beginning with the contrast in the role of the Federal Government.
    June 11, 1963 ~ Songs & Stories From Home Episode 46 ~ Mark Pearson Music

  • The March on Washington

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. declared the March on Washington in August of 1963 the greatest demonstration of freedom in the history of the United States.
    The March on Washington ~ Songs & Stories From Home Episode 47 ~ Mark Pearson Music

A Lover's Quarrel with the World

When someone asked Robert Frost what he wanted on his tombstone his answer was: He Had A Lover's Quarrel With The World. The songs and stories you’ll find in this room are part of my lover’s quarrel with the world including what I call Remembering the Dream, 21 videos sharing songs and stories from the Civil Rights Movement of the 50’s and 60’s and how those songs and those stories connect with and help us understand the times we are living in now.
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