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Lancaster Book Club: Parting the Waters
Good Schools Pennsylvania advocates in Lancaster are hitting the books. Literally.
Advocates will soon begin a five-week book study focusing on the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The focus of the study is Taylor Branch's Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63. The first book study session will begin at 12:00 pm on Tuesday, January 29 and will be held weekly at the Brightside Baptist Church, 515 Hershey Avenue, Lancaster.
For more information on how to join the study group either in Lancaster or from another location, call Good Schools' office at (717) 371-1516. Call now - space is limited!
Book club members: Bookmark this site and check back often. We will post study questions, thoughts, observations and comments weekly. To join the discussion, send your comments to info@goodschoolspa.org.
Week five: February 26, Wrap up
- Discuss the planning process and personalities involved for the March on Washington.
- Briefly discuss the overall impact of the entire book, and what we may have learned from it.
Week four: February 19, Chapters 18-20
- What made the Birmingham movement different from the other cities where King sought changes?
- What strategies were different?
Week three: February 12, Chapters 8-10
- King and the Kennedys -- How did they help each other's causes? What were the complicating factors in their relationship?
- King and the students -- How did they help each other? What were the complicating factors in their relationship?
Week two: February 5, Chapters 5-7
- What impact, if any, did Bayard Rustin have on the Montgomery Bus Boycott or on Dr. King himself?
- How would you describe Dr. King's assessment of Vice President Richard Nixon? What is your reaction to it?
Week one: January 29, Chapters 1-4
- How did Dr. King come to his strategy of nonviolent resistance?