Literacy, Identity, Imagination, Flight [2000]

As I prepared to come to Minneapolis for this convention, I could not help, given the locale and theme of our gathering, to remember to pay homage to a special person of great imagination, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. When King was gunned down in Memphis in 1968, the nineteenth annual CCCC convention was being held in this city. Fortunately, his dream of nonracist societies lives on and, in fact, has inspired some of the best work done by members of our organization over the past thirty-two years with respect to creating courses that have gestured toward a more socially just world.