Join nearly 40 Caravanistas from Pastors for Peace, who will be carrying tons of humanitarian aid bound for the people of Cuba, as they sojourn in Dallas at an interactive, intergenerational reception. Rev. Thomas Smith, Pastor Monumental Baptist Church Pittsburg, Pennsylvania and President of the Board of Directors, Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization/Pastors for Peace will address the group and cultural performances celebrating diversity and humanity will also be featured.
Dallasites are asked to bring items to donate to the Caravan: Medicines, vitamins, and antiseptics (with expiration dates no earlier than February 2009) are welcomed. Walking canes, reading glasses, wheel chairs and school supplies are also encouraged. Checks can be made payable to Pastors for Peace.
White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001. From the 19th century until today, the powerbrokers of Dallas have portrayed their city as a progressive, pro-business, racially harmonious community that has avoided the racial, ethnic and class strife that roiled other Southern cities. But does this image of Dallas match the historical reality? In this book, Phillips delves deeply into Dallas's racial and religious past and uncovers a complicated history of resistance, collaboration, and assimilation between the city's African-American, Mexican-American, and Jewish communities and its white power elite. The book, developed from an award-winning doctoral dissertation, won the Texas Historical Commission's T.R. Fehrenbach Book Award for best work on Texas history in 2007.
