Heroes & Servants
Athena
This greek word is often translated as hospitality although it means much more in the context of ancient Greece.
zenia / ξενία
This movement challenged the status quo by riding interstate buses in the South in mixed racial groups to challenge local laws or customs that defied federal law to maintain racial segregation. They departed from from Washington, D.C. in 1961 and ended in various destinations including the Parchman Jail in Jackson, Mississippi.
Freedom Rides
This ancient Greek word is often translated to translated to "renown" or "glory" though it is more fitting for us to think of it as "legacy."
kleos / κλέος
This ancient Greek word is refers to a hero returning home having overcome numerous trials.
nostos / νόστος
In this sermon, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. acknowledges the fact that many people desire recognition but proposes an alternative kind of ambition one can achieve through a life of service.
Drum Major Instinct
Speaking on this concept, Odysseus inquired of many of the places he visited:
“Man of misery, whose land have I lit on now?
What are they here -violent, savage, lawless?or friendly to strangers, god-fearing men?”
xenia
This was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s response to eight white religious leaders of the South who called him an "outsider" and claimed that he was "moving too fast."
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
The organization's goal is to guide the visitor through the history slavery to racial oppression in other forms, including lynching, segregation, and mass incarceration to show the historical evolution of various forms of racial inequality.
Legacy Museum
With Athena's help, Odysseus returns to his home in this disguise and is thought to be a foreigner by his own son and household.
Beggar
In addition to winning a Nobel Peace Prize and a Grammy, this president brokered a peace deal between Israel and Egypt, declared "the time of segregation is over," appointed civil rights leaders as U.S. ambassadors, and signed 14 bills to address climate change through energy conservation.
Jimmy Carter
This American farmer and New Testament Greek scholar founded Koinonia Farm and inspired Habitat for Humanity through practice racial equality and economic justice in Southwest Georgia during the height of the Jim Crow era.
Clarence Jordan
In an effort to register Black voters in the South and challenge unlawful practices used to disenfranchise voters, protesters marched the 54-mile route from this location in Selma to Montgomery, the state capital of Alabama.
Edmund Pettus Bridge
This comrade of the Greeks in Trojan War fell, broke his neck and was forgotten by Odysseus. His life is a metaphor for remembering the many persons who have died or killed in the civil rights movement.
Elpenor
The only person who is not deceived by Odysseus' lies or appearance is a servant named Eurekleia who recognizes him by this.
A scar on his thigh
With Hamilton Holmes, she was one of the first two African American students admitted to the University of Georgia who continued her work in journalism.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Rosa Parks attended a two-week workshop at this Tennessee based organization in 1955 where she studied implementing desegregation with other black and white activists. Founded in the 1930s by Myles Horton, this organization sought to build local leadership for social change and was the birthplace of the song "We Shall Overcome."
Highlander Folk School
This campaign was well underway before Martin Luther King arrived due to the leadership of Charles Sherrod (SNCC), William G. Anderson (a doctor) and Slater King (a realtor). They first used the mantra "jail, no bail" and saw more than 600 arrested for nonviolent protests.
Albany Movement
Gone with the Wind and most Confederate Memorials draw on this interpretation of the American Civil War, viewed by most historians as a myth, that attempts to preserve the honor of the South by casting the Confederate defeat in the best possible light.
Lost Cause
Penelope proposes a final test for the suitors to string Odysseus' bow and shoot an arrow through this.
Axes
Wind Done Gone
This woman organized black women to cook and donate the proceeds into an alternative transportation system to sustain the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Mary Gilmore
In 1961, the FBI knew of racists attacks planned by the Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham and in this city but did nothing to stop it.
Anniston
Instead of emphasizing Southerners who fought against the slavery and Jim Crow, these persons have been erased and replaced by the glorification of Confederate generals and segregationists. This problem introduces the need for us to restore, preserve, and create the stories of our own ideas of these.
heroes
The film is set in rural Mississippi in 1937, and it follows three escaped convicts searching for hidden treasure while a sheriff relentlessly pursues them. Its story is a modern satire which, while incorporating social features of the American South, is loosely based on Homer's epic Greek poem The Odyssey.
O Brother, Where Art Thou