by Shelley Douglass Pax Christi USA Teacher of Peace I’ve been thinking a lot about my friend Johnnie Mae Coleman this month. Here in Birmingham we are celebrating 50 years since the cataclysmic events of the 60’s – marches, police dogs, fire hoses, culminating in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. I think … Continue reading REFLECTION: Teacher’s witness helped to solidify the gains of the Civil Rights Movement