About Sue [Lorenzi] Sojourner
susojourner.com
501 Washington Studios
315 N. Lake Avenue, Duluth Minnesota 55806
218-726-0341
susojo@yahoo.com
Education
B.A. 1964, Political Science and Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley
Selected Manuscripts/Publications
The Management of Fear by a Community: Holmes County, Miss., 1963-67,“ by Sue [Lorenzi] Sojourner and Henry Lorenzi, 1968
“The Some People of That Place,” final analysis. A manuscript describing the Holmes County organizing efforts, by Sue [Lorenzi] Sojourner and Henry Lorenzi, 1969
“The 1967 Elections” by Sue and Henry Lorenzi, 1969; edited by Sue, 2004
Some Views on Blacks and Black Communities—A Collection of Diverse Papers, compiled and edited under the direction of D.B. Shimkin (Champaign: University of Illinois, Dept of Anthropology, 1969)
Materials on Holmes County, Miss.: An Index and Descriptions, w/H. Lorenzi (Lexington/Champaign, 1969)
“The Holmes County Civil Rights Movement Participants: The Mood, Feel, Environment of 1963-67,” read at annual meeting of American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, Dec. 1985;
“The Holmes County Civil Rights Movement Participants: A White Activist’s Perspective,” read at Research Conference on the Experiences of Black Mississippians, University of Mississippi, Oxford, Feb, 1986;
“The Holmes County Civil Rights Movement Participants: Oral Histories,” read at Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference of Oral History Association, Morgan State University, Baltimore, April 1986
Selected Exhibitions
“The 1960s Holmes County Mississippi Civil Rights Movement,” prepared a display as part of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement Exhibit, Tamiment Library, New York University, Oct-Nov 1989
“The Some People of That Place — 1960s Holmes County, Mississippi: The Local People and Their Civil Rights Movement,” a documentary photography exhibit first on display at the University of Minnesota Duluth Tweed Museum of Art, March-April 1999. Included 13-image illustrated exhibit brochure.
Additional exhibitions: Washington Galleries, Duluth, 1999; Tougaloo College’s Annual History Conference, Jackson, Miss. (2001) ; Milton Olive Community Center, Lexington, Miss, by Holmes Freedom Democratic Party (2001); Georgetown University, Washington, DC (2002) University of Wisconsin-Superior (2004); Old Capitol Museum, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Miss (2004) Puffin Forum, Teaneck, N.J. (2004); Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania (2006).
“Got to Thinking: How the Black People of 1960s Holmes County, Mississippi Organized Their Civil Rights Movement.”, a photography exhibit and 20-page text brochure commissioned by Praxis International, a Duluth non-profit, for its training of organizers from around the world in domestic abuse intervention (2000). On the website (http://www.praxisinternational.org/lib_communityorganization.aspx) and on permanent display at the Praxis Building (The Center for Nonviolence) at Second Avenue East and Superior Street in Duluth, MN. Download Exhibit.
Grants and Awards
Norcroft Women’s Writing Retreat, Lutsen, Minnesota. Solo Writing Retreat, October 1998 and January 2001
Minnesota State Arts Board. Grant for printing of brochures for Tweed exhibit, January 1999
Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, Moose Lake, Minnesota. Solo Writing Retreat, August 1999
Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, Duluth, Minnesota. Artist Initiative Grant, November 2008
More about The Civil Rights Movement: www.crmvet.org