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Posts from the ‘Grand Rapids People’s History Project’ Category

0December 4, 2025Minister, socialist and Presidential Candidate Norman Thomas gave a lecture at Fountain Street Church in 1965

0November 15, 2025Community Historians workshop focuses on the Grand Rapids Public Schools in the 1980s

0November 6, 2025Epilogue for my forthcoming book, Reversing the Missionary Position: Learning Solidarity on Mayan Time

0November 4, 2025The War Criminal Dick Cheney is dead and people gave him hell when he visited Grand Rapids while he was Vice President

0October 30, 2025I was invited to submit some entires for the Zinn Education Project’s social media popular education platform known as This Day in History

1October 23, 2025Author and education activist Jonathan Kozol gave a lecture at Fountain Street Church in 2007

2October 13, 2025A video clip of Jane Fonda speaking against the US war in Vietnam at Fountain Street Church in 1972

1September 18, 2025Community Historians Workshop provided a fabulous opportunity to hear directly from people who attended GRPS schools in the 1960s

3September 11, 2025The late Black feminist and insurgent writer bell hooks gave a lecture at Fountain Street Church in 2006

3September 3, 20252004 lecture by Amy Goodman at Fountain Street Church: The US military occupation of Iraq and media coverage