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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Bill, As I remember, about that time you were
chased doown the street, (you'll remember the riot police) and chimbed up into
our first floor apartment, where you stayed a day or so. Ann Harrison
Avery had helped me take our four kids across the street to the hospital
basement. Later Brad escaped (being five years old) and snuck back to his
bed. Bill Grow was off teaching somewhere. Police wouldn't let me cross
the street to find him in spite of my screaming. He was safely in bed and asleep
when we did get the other three kids back to their rooms. God bless
Ann! I think she saved us all!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> Nan
Grow</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net
href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">Bill Schlesinger via Dialogue</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=wmbailey@charter.net
href="mailto:wmbailey@charter.net">'Marianna Bailey'</A> ; <A
title=dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net
href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">'Colleague Dialogue'</A> ; <A
title=dm14@txstate.edu href="mailto:dm14@txstate.edu">'Diann A McCabe'</A>
</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 11, 2017 6:30
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Dialogue] MLK Weekend,
April 6, 1968</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">I
was on switchboard when we came back into the building – smoke around us and
everything. Tony had followed the gang folk around putting out the fires
they had started.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Bill
Schlesinger<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> Dialogue
[mailto:dialogue-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Marianna
Bailey via Dialogue<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 11, 2017 11:35
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Diann A McCabe; George Holcombe via
Dialogue<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Dialogue] MLK Weekend, April 6,
1968<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>I remember the night!! We were escorted to a car by the
Vice Lords in order to get out of 5th City. We headed “west” and just kept
driving<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Much later that night someone suggest we call the
Institute. Although we didn’t think anyone would answer, we called! To our
surprise someone answered (can’t remember who). They said they were
hiding under the desk but the National Guard was there. The next morning, Bill
and I took a taxi to the Institute the others never returned to the
Institute.<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>Marianna<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>On Apr 10, 2017, at 1:01 PM, McCabe, Diann A via Dialogue
<<A
href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</A>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">Thank you,
Jo. I loved reading this and living through your telling of it. Diann
McCabe, San Marcos, TX<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">From:
</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Dialogue <<A
href="mailto:dialogue-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net</A>>
on behalf of Jo Nelson via Dialogue <<A
href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</A>><BR><B>Reply-To:
</B>Jo Nelson <<A
href="mailto:jnelson@ica-associates.ca">jnelson@ica-associates.ca</A>>,
Colleague Dialogue <<A
href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</A>><BR><B>Date:
</B>Sunday, April 9, 2017 at 8:54 PM<BR><B>To: </B>Dialogue List <<A
href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</A>><BR><B>Subject:
</B>[Dialogue] MLK Weekend, April 6, 1968<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">I posted this
in my blog on the weekend, and it forwarded to my Facebook page.
Someone requested that I also send it to the O:E list, but I am no
longer on it, so I chose to put it here. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">MLK Weekend,
April 6, 1968<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">49 years ago,
I participated in a history- and life-changing event on the West Side of
Chicago.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">I was 19
years old, in my second year at the University of Iowa, and traveled with my
campus Wesleyan Foundation group to take a course called “Cultural Studies
I” at the Ecumenical Institute on the West Side of Chicago.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt"> The day
before the course was scheduled to begin, Martin Luther King was
assassinated. From our small-town Iowa perspective, though, we saw no
reason not to go to Chicago for the course.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt"> When we
arrived in Chicago after a 5-hour drive on Friday, it was clear that the
assassination had catalyzed unrest, but it wasn’t clear what was going to
happen. The others in the car decided to turn around and go home, just
in case. My brother and his family (David and Linda Zahrt, Jay and
Heidi) were working at the Institute, and they weren’t fleeing, so I decided
to stay. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt"> The
first session on Friday evening began as scheduled in a lower floor room
with windows at ground level. I remember sitting next to what
seemed to me to be an older man, Sheldon Hill, and thinking “there is no
generation gap”, because we seemed to be on the same page of
understanding. As the session progressed, we heard shouting out on the
street and saw legs running by with gun
barrels. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt"> After
the session ended, I went up to my dorm room and looked out. I could
see fires burning within a block or so on 3 sides of the building, and on
the fourth side was the Eisenhower Expressway filled with cars getting out
of the city. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt"> I went
to my brother’s apartment to talk with him and hang out with family. I
didn’t want to be alone, as it was pretty scary and I was stranded. After a
little while there was a knock on the door, and we were told everyone was
evacuating the building, as someone had broken in and tried to start a fire
in the building.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt"> There
was a long-unused tunnel between the Institute campus and a hospital across
the street. Somehow the tunnel was opened and we all went across to
the hospital basement. By this time almost every participant had
escaped via the expressway, so there were only a couple of participants and
Institute staff. My brother and sister-in-law asked me to watch their
two small children, who were wild with the energy around us. At
various points the National Guard would come in to get coffee, and smoke
would roll in with them. Someone had a radio, and we heard that inner
cities were burning all over America. It felt like
Armegeddon. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt"> At
daybreak on Saturday, when the rioters were exhausted and it was a bit
quieter, we walked across the street back to the Institute. The entire
staff (maybe 40 people) gathered in Room A to decide what to do. The
children were in a nearby room with a couple of mothers. There were
only 3 of us who were not staff, one of whom was the president of the
Institute’s board. I watched as the staff talked through their
profound commitment to help the community develop, and the dangers that
staying there would have. In the end, they decided by consensus to
stay and risk their lives to support the community, since they had made a
commitment. They also decided to send out the children and the women
who were pregnant to friends and supporters in the suburbs for safety, since
the children had not made a conscious decision to risk their lives to
stay. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt"> As a
non-staff family member who did not live there, I was also sent out with the
children to the home of a suburban colleague who was mobilizing her entire
network to find places for all the “refugee” kids to stay. I was then
sent to a home in Lake Forest, Illinois, which at the time was the richest
town per capita in the world, with two toddlers. David Prather was 1 and
Dietrich Laudermilk was 2 years old. I had no idea of how to take care
of toddlers, and spent the night putting them back on the bed after they had
rolled off. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt"> On
Sunday morning I was able to get through to my brother and tell him where
his kids were, and where I was. The one other stranded participant was
a student from Nebraska, and got in touch with me to ride back with
her. By Sunday afternoon we were on the road
home.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt"> The
next day I got up for my first class, but couldn’t make it through. I
came back to the dorm, and slept for 24 hours straight.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt"> During
that event in Chicago, I witnessed a group of people deciding by consensus
to risk their lives to honour their commitment to work with the
community. That is a rare experience. I realized that this group
of people were no ordinary group. Their care was profound. It’s
a big part of the reason I started to work with the Institute (which morphed
into the Institute of Cultural Affairs) as soon as I graduated from
university, and why I am still with it all these years
later.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt"> Some of
the impact of that event was the catalyst that created ICA’s mode of radical
participation in development: it became very obvious that communities
didn’t thrive from nice white educated do-gooders trying to help, but that
they change deeply from local people and local leadership working
collaboratively. Outsiders have a role in the partnership, but the
lead comes from the community. The facilitative approach as an equal
partner is the only way to make a
difference. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
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