Team & Contact
Sojourn to the Past was created in 1999 by former Bay Area history teacher, Jeff Steinberg. The Sojourn leadership team (click here) is supported by a who’s who among nationally recognized civil rights scholars and historians (click here) who serve as advisors to Sojourn in curricular areas. Sojourn’s Board of Directors includes Myrlie Evers Williams, Chair Emeritus, NAACP and widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers (click here to learn about the Sojourn Board).
To contact Sojourn staff, click here.
Forty years post the Civil Rights Movement, the struggle for equity throughout the system remains. As veteran leaders of the movement age, it is clearly our responsibility to insure that the vigilance continues. Sojourn to the Past is one such tool. Through a ten day journey that immerses and personalizes for students the historical dynamics of dominance, the politics of difference, and the courage of those who rose to the challenge, students learn the history of the Civil Rights Movement while they examine present day systems, individual behavior, language and thoughts that perpetuate racism and discrimination.
