Other Tradition

Lex Musta tells the interracial story of how the January 20th 1955 first-in-the-nation student-led sit-in integration of a lunch counter came about (6:00), led by Dr. Helen Hicks in Baltimore from Morgan State University. It was facilitated by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) activity in Baltimore founded by Dr. Herbert Kelman and Robert Watts in 1952, an interracial coalition which laid the ground work for the national student-led sit-in movement six years before Greensboro (7:10). In 1953 CORE integrates (Kresge) KMart lunch counters in Baltimore (8:15). In 1953 CORE integrates Woolworth lunch counters in Baltimore (9:37). In 1954 CORE integrates McCrory's and Grant's lunch counters in Baltimore with sit-ins, one year before 1955 first-in-nation student sit-ins (9:55). 1954 Read's Drug Store integrated by CORE's Robert Watts and his Morgan State Students and their 8 month sit-in, leading up to Dr. Helen Hicks led sit in (10:14). 1946-1952 NAACP integration of Ford's Theater with the participation of a

Lex Musta tells the story of how Barbara Talley's Fourth Great Grandfather had a son Benjamin in 1787 in Dorchester County who would be manumitted from enslavement when he turned 45 and saved to liberate his wife from her concentration camp as well. He then became a station master on the interracial underground railroad. After helping with the escape of the "Dover Eight," Benjamin's daughter Harriet Tubman came to liberate her at-risk parents in 1857, reaching William Still's station with them in June of that year. They reached Freedom North in St. Catherine's, before moving to the famous Harriet Tubman home in Auburn, New York in 1859. Benjamin's six year younger brother Dani who helped with Harriet's escapes from Baltimore (20:05). Dani's son John T. Ross moved back to St. Michaels before the end of the war (29:30). His son Frank Ross continued to live in his father's house in St. Michaels since his birth in 1857 (29:40). His son Percy Ross was born on the 12th of June in 1902 in St. Michaels (30:05). In 19

Lex Musta tells the story of how Charlotte Emily Brittingham Dixon received a three month sanctification in Princess Anne, MD in 1896 (3:15), and went to Chicago in search of the Manifestation of God she felt certain was upon the earth (5:10), she found Him in the person of Baha'u'llah and returned to the Southern United States to establish the DC Baha'i Community in 1898 (10:35), she was soon joined by Laura Barney in 1902 who invited over the greatest Baha'i Philosopher of the time Mirza Abu'l Fad'l to write the book Baha'i Proofs and teach the young community its new Faith (16:25), Pauline Hannen consequently adopted the Faith and began to share it with DC's African American community (18:25), the well known spiritual wife of the Rev. John W. Pope, Pocahontas, whose husband comes from the richest African American family in North Carolina, became the first African American in DC to adopt the Faith in 1907 (27:30), the first of those liberated from Thomas Jefferson's Monticello concentration camp in 1865 to

We tell the story of how Carrie Minor Johnson grew up in Washington DC where the Other Tradition saved her and the city from the Racial Pogrom of 1919: Carrie Minor Johnson's Childhood on G Street (3:06), First Integrated US Baha'i Gathering on G Street in 1910 (4:36), 1919 DC Racial Pogrom reaches Carrie Minor Johnson (5:25), African American Carrie Minor Johnson partners with European American Federal Judge Siddons to be save her life (8:25), The DC Baha'i Community's 110 year experience with the Other Tradition (9:38), Mr. Louis George Gregory exemplar of the Other Tradition (14:39), The DC Baha'i Community responds to the 1919 Racial Pogrom (20:02).

Lex Musta recalls his introduction to 'The Other Tradition' by Dr. Richard Thomas in 2012, Detroit: Race and Uneven Development (3:50), Focus Hope (7:30), Detroit Interracial Cooperation after 1943 and 1967 Pogroms (8:45), Racial Unity: An Imperative for Social Progress published by the Association for Baha'i Studies in 1993 (11:15), Understanding Interracial Unity: A Study of U.S. Race Relations published in the SAGE series on Race and Ethnic Relations in 1995 (11:30), Black and Jewish Faculty on College Campuses and Minister Farrakhan (15:00), Grimke Sisters (17:00), Bacon's Rebellion (20:00), Revolutionary War (23:15), John Brown meets Frederick Douglass (27:00), USCT (31:15), Knights of Labor (31:30), Reconstruction (32:00), NAACP (32:45), Northern Migration (34:30), Herbert Aptheker (37:00), Congress of Industrial Organizations (37:30), Highlander Folk School (38:15), Southern Conference for Human Welfare (38:30), Southern Conference Educational Fund (38:45), Howard Thurman (40:30), Malcolm X and Martin