Wading in the Water: My human rights journey in Mississippi by Susan M Glisson

Wading in the Water: My human rights journey in Mississippi

by Susan M Glisson

August 7, 2018
7 mins story

Augusta Georgia United States Mississippi United States Cape Town Western Cape South Africa

1. Please tell us your name (unless you want to be anonymous), and why you defend rights. For example, was there a moment in your life that motivated you?

Introducing students to Rev. Will Campbell and Rev. James Lawson

Summer Youth Institute with Mrs. Myrlie Evers Williams

Candlelight vigil against hate, University of Mississippi 2012

2004 Call for Justice in the "Mississippi Burning" case, with student interns at the Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation

Planning trustbuilding and social justice interventions for police and marginalized communities, at John Jay College

3. What continues to inspire you to defend rights?

A former student and her little girl and me.

Susan with the Fetzer Institute's president and with Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Cape Town, 2009

Susan with Imogene Bryant, widow of C.C. Bryant, a civil rights movement family in McComb, MS.

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1. Please tell us your name (unless you want to be anonymous), and why you defend rights. For example, was there a moment in your life that motivated you?

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2. What do you feel is the most challenging part of what you do? (For example: how does defending rights affect your personal life?)

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3. What continues to inspire you to defend rights?

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I Defend Rights

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