Sunday Group: Beautiful and Terrible: Critically Engaging with Civil Rights History
Facilitator: Steven Lechner
January 11, 18, 25; February 1 and 8
Room 310
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Discussion Description:
What if I told you that many of our common understandings of the civil rights movement are built on myth? With A More Beautiful and Terrible History by Jeanne Theoharis serving as our primary resource, let us confront this possibility together in this five-week course. We’ll examine how polite racism, media narratives, and government resistance shaped and often distorted our collective memories, and discuss how the civil rights movement’s expansive vision of justice can speak to contemporary Christian discipleship (Micah 6:8).
This class invites honest conversation, historical rigor, and faithful action grounded in truth rather than fables. It is not necessary to read the entire book to attend this group.
The Sunday Group facilitator, Steven Lechner, originally hails from the Catskill Mountain region of New York State. He now resides in Garner with his wife, Jennifer, his daughter, Grace, and his son, Abe.
Read Steven’s biography here.
