MPR’s Stephen Smith moderates a civil rights panel discussion with an author, an activist, a teacher and a former vice president of the United States at the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis.
Christopher Paul Curtis, author of "The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963" and other books of young adult fiction; Josie Johnson, long-time Minnesota civil rights activist, who was the first African-American elected to the University of Minnesota Board of Regents; Lee-Ann Stephens, English language arts teacher at Park Spanish Immersion school in St. Louis Park and 2006 Minnesota Teacher of the Year; and Walter Mondale, former vice president of the United States, discuss the legacy of the civil rights movement
Smith is the executive editor of American RadioWorks, the documentary unit of American Public Media.