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Activate Now – Drake House

This is the sixth stop of the Marching On project for the Hernd0n Gallery's current exhibition Unpacking the Archives: Frameworks for Change--Activate Now! The final picture in the above slideshow is a map showing all of the stops on this tour of activism.

Sometimes, our convictions move us to act. Here at the corner of Xenia Avenue and Limestone Street, a march held on May 5, 1963, demonstrating against a court ruling in support of Lewis Gegner, completed. Gegner owned a barber shop in town and he refused to cut black people's hair. Former Antioch President and elder statesman of the community Arthur E. Morgan spoke from the lawn of Drake House. He could no longer remain silent on the civil rights dilemma facing the people of Yellow Springs. Below is an audio clip from Morgan’s May 5 1963 speech.

Jocelyn Robinson is a Yellow Springs, Ohio-based educator, media producer, and radio preservationist. As an educator, Robinson has taught transdisciplinary literature courses incorporating critical cultural theory and her scholarship in self-definition and identity. She also teaches community-based and college-level classes in digital storytelling and narrative journalism.
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