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About the “Keep the Faith Tour”
Outreach Program
“Keep The Faith” was an original slogan
coined by Morrie Turner several years before Reverend
Jesse Jackson’s introduction of the slogan during the
Civil Rights era. The significance of Morrie’s version
will be realized in a tangible way for children to
experience him and his altruistic beliefs firsthand.
The Outreach program will be designed as an educational
resource to:
(1) Provoke students to give serious thought to their
vocational options
(2) Teach children the importance of teamwork
(3) And to exercise their receptivity towards diversity
We will contact schools, community centers, and
children’s museums in six major cities across the
country (i.e.: New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles,
Chicago, Detroit and Atlanta) to implement our outreach
program. The program includes screening an abbreviated
version of our documentary film “Keeping the Faith With
Morrie;” a film about Morrie Turner’s hard road to fame
and the history of minority cartoonists in America.
Morrie Turner will attend the screenings to present his
famous Chalk Talk, and give an inspirational talk about
the importance of pursuing your dream and the value of
diversity and tolerance in the 21st century. A group
activity will be assigned to teach children how to work
and problem-solve together which is a dominant thread in
Turner’s WEE PALS comic strips.
Funding for the program permits us to travel with Mr.
Turner and bring the WEE PALS characters to life using
actors. They will perform sketches about the importance
of teamwork, respecting each other’s differences, and
select scenes from his musical adaptation of WEE PALS;
Turner wrote the musical, a tuneful tribute to harmony
among people, with playwright and director Ole Kittleson
in 1979.
Complimentary copies of the documentary
film will be donated to the following institutions:
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San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum
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Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research
Center in Santa Rosa, California
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African American Museum of Oakland,
California
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Cartoon Research Library at Ohio
State University
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The Carter G. Woodson Regional Branch
of the Chicago Library (Vivian Harsh Collection of
Afro-American History)
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