Reconciliation Initiative TCRHTF

The Racial Reconciliation Initiative of the Tuscaloosa Civil Rights History Task Force launched in July of 2018.  Over 60 individuals from diverse backgrounds have divided into four distinct reconciliation circles and have been meeting monthly working through a community building/racial reconciliation process known as the Mosaic Process.  In January they participated in a three day intensive retreat to further this process and to finalize plans for each reconciliation circle's community project that they will be completing over the next four months.  Each of the projects will advance the cause of racial reconciliation in our Tuscaloosa community in an impactful and lasting way. 

These community projects include:
1.  Airing a series of radio and television PSAs and the production of a 30 minute documentary related to Tuscaloosa Civil Rights History
2.  A community dialogue event focused on the events of Bloody Tuesday in Tuscaloosa on June 9th, 1964
3.  Decreasing the racial literacy gap while advancing interpersonal racial reconciliation by piloting an 11 week after school reading program at a local elementary school using reading materials that are age and grade-level appropriate on the subject matter of racial reconciliation
4.  Training tour guides for the soon to be launched Tuscaloosa Civil Rights Trail and creating a training manual for future tour guides

This iteration of the Racial Reconciliation Initiative will conclude in June of 2019 at which time planning will begin to launch a second cycle of the reconciliation initiative which will start in the fall of 2019.

All funds received will be leveraged with an abundant amount of volunteer human capital to bring about lasting and impactful racial reconciliation change in the Tuscaloosa community.