Excerpted from an essay originally published in Soul Work: Anti-Racist Theologies in Dialogue, eds. Marjorie Bowens-Wheatley and Nancy Palmer Jones, 171-98. Boston: Skinner House Books, 2003. Used with permission....

These definitions are adapted from the work of Louise Derman-Sparks and Carol Brunson Phillips, published in Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism: A Developmental Approach (New York: Teachers College Press, 1997). Racism An institutionalized system of economic, political, social, and cultural relations...

Adapted from a piece originally published in Weaving the Fabric of Diversity (Boston: UUA, 1996). If I am a White person in America: I can turn on my television or watch a movie and see many images of people of my race in a wide variety of roles, including many positive and heroic ones....

These suggestions are intended to slow down the flurry of assumptions that can come into play when we talk about the stories and truths that shape our lives. Following these guidelines together can help every participant fully engage with others and grow from our interactions....

Lydia Maria Child is not as famous now as she was when she lived— famous as a radical and reformer, a brilliant thinker and author, and a tireless advocate for oppressed members of society, specifically Native Americans, children, Africans and African Americans held in slavery, and women. Lydia...

Copy the story, and distribute the individual narratives to participants to read aloud. Eliza Cabot Follen My name is Eliza Lee Cabot Follen. In the early 19th century, I was an active member of abolitionist societies in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts along with my husband, a Unitarian...

When Ruby Bridges was six years old and in the first grade, just like many other children, she went to a new school. Ruby's school was called William Frantz Elementary School. It was in the City of New Orleans in the state of Louisiana.

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity A copy of the story, "Hard Truths" Preparation for Activity Read the story and prepare to share it with the group. Review the discussion questions....

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity A copy of the story "Juliette Hampton Morgan" A bell, chime, rain stick or other musical noisemaker Preparation for Activity Read the story a few times. Consider telling it dramatically, rather than reading it from the page. Practice telling it....

Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint, markers and tape Card stock for cards Optional: Envelopes for cards Arts and crafts materials to share, such as markers, colored pencils, paints/paintbrushes, tissue paper, stickers, glue sticks and scissors (including left-handed scisso...

Our hearts should be too warm and too large for hatred. More than one hundred fifty years ago, back when trains were new and airplanes and cars hadn't been invented, back when women always wore long skirts and everyone wore hats, a girl named Fannie Barrier lived in a town in New York State....

Christian: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Hindu: Do naught to others which would cause you pain if done to you. Buddhist: Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful. Jewish: What thou thyself hatest, do to no man....

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity A copy of the story, "W.H.G. Carter and a Step Toward Racial Reconciliation" Preparation for Activity Read the story and prepare to tell or read it to the group. Description of Activity Participants will hear a true story illustrating how some...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity A copy of the story, "James Luther Adams and the Chicago Church Desegregation" Preparation for Activity Read the story. Prepare to tell it or to read it aloud. Description of Activity Gather the group in a circle to hear the story. Read or tell the...