Tapestry of Faith: Exploring Our Values Through Poetry: A Program for High School Youth

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You can find "End of a Discussion with a Jailer" in the anthology, The Space between Our Footsteps, by Naomi Shihab Nye (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998). Samih Al-Qasim is featured in the PBS Online NewsHour poetry series web pages.

"Poem for the Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person, Could Believe in the War between Races" and "Animal Liberation" are from the anthology, From Totems To Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002, edited by Ishmael Reed (New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2003). Poets.org has a short biography of Lorna Dee Cervantes.

You can find an interview with Genny Lim on YouTube and the University of California has biographical information about Lim.

For a bit of history about "A Change Is Gonna Come," go to Songfacts or Rolling Stone. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum has a short biography of Sam Cooke.

Black History Now has biographical information on Whitney Young.

The Unitarian Universalist Historical Society has a biographical dictionary. It includes an entry on Viola Liuzzo, Bertrand Russell, and Clarence Skinner.

Go to Unitarian Universalist Animal Ministry for more information on Henry Bergh.