Let’s Go forward Together by Ernest McMillan

On February 17, 2024, veteran Ernest McMillan had a conversation with Jerry Hawkins, Executive Director of Dallas Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation, about McMillan’s newly published memoirs "Standing: One Man’s Odyssey Through the Turbulent 60s" and "Kneeling: Poems and Verus Transcending the Turbulent 60s" and his many years of social and political action.

Ernest McMillan is a veteran human rights activist with a history of working through the 60’s in Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and throughout the 80’s with the National Black United Front and the Un.ited League of Mississippi. McMillan served as the Chairman of the Dallas SNCC from 1967- 1969. He is deeply involved in the work of connecting arts with the community and developing avenues to foster and engage multigenerational, multicultural bridges for community uplift. Learn more about Ernest McMillan, watch his Oral History via the Museum’s online collections database at emuseum.jfk.org.

Jerry Hawkins is the Executive Director of Dallas Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (DTRHT), part of a national 14-place initiative by The W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Dallas TRHT’s mission is to create a radically inclusive city by addressing race and racism through narrative change, relationship building, and equitable policies and practices. Jerry is also a co-founder of (The IF Institute), a national research-based leadership group that helps organizations and institutions understand the historical context to contemporary issues of place, race and space. J

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