You Can Contribute to Positive Change
Courtesy of Frederick Douglass Opie
Excerpt of an Author Interview
What prompted you to write Southern Food and Civil Rights?
The idea for the book came from an NPR segment from the Kitchen Sisters, Nikki Silva and Davia Nelson, and their series which they call Hidden Kitchens. I listened to a story about Georgia Gilmore's hidden Kitchen contribution to the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. From there I started doing research on the role of food in social movements and wrote about it on my blog in a series I call Feeding the Revolution.
What do you want readers to take away from this book?
We can all make a contribution to bringing about progressive change in our communities in our own way. So often we focus on a movements spokesperson and or leader and ignore the worker bees behind the scene whose gifts and talents help keep the pressure on and bring about change. You can host an event in your home, at work as a lunchtime event, and in barbershops, beauty parlors, bookstores, coffee shops, schools, libraries, grocery stores, community center, clubs, and churches..
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