About More Than A Bus Ride
William Dickerson-Waheed
Cosmo-D Productions L.L.C.
Producer/Publisher
P.O. Box 11793 Jackson, Ms. 39202
601.594.6792 wwaheed16@hotmail.com
Website: www.morethanabusride.org
Cosmo-D Productions L.L.C.
Producer/Publisher
P.O. Box 11793 Jackson, Ms. 39202
601.594.6792 wwaheed16@hotmail.com
Website: www.morethanabusride.org
William Dickerson-Waheed, Film Producer, Director, and Certified Public Access Television Producer/Director in Jackson, Mississippi chose to produce a story about struggles of some unheralded women in Montgomery and the role they played in the reshaping of America and winning a U.S. Supreme Court decision that reversed jim crow laws. Dickerson-Waheed, a native North Carolinian, residing in Mississippi, moved to Montgomery to research and produce the documentary, lived for two years among history makers and was thereby able to gain information other writers and researchers missed. He saw in in the Montgomery Story an opportunity to reveal and share with others a successful model for community development, models of participatory citizenship, and models of citizens practicing participatory democracy. Mr. Waheed has been interested in social justice and has been an advocate for justice throughout his life. He saw in the Montgomery Civil Rights Movement a model of how people could create and transform systems to protests injustices and correctly reset the citizenship compass of the United States of America.
He published More Than A Bus Ride Curriculum Guide to assist teachers help students understand the deeper underlying forces that the seat on the bus symbolically represented, to motivate young people to take active roles in their local communities to "ensure the blessings of liberty and freedom for generations yet unborn" and herald the untold contributions of those brave and courageous women and men that have been largely ignored and credited to others in history books and classrooms. He is using teaching techniques and strategies from the guide in drop out prevention activities and programs.
Prior to his work in film/documentary, Mr. Waheed worked in the field of Community Economic Development. He developed youth intervention programs and organizations, senior citizen support programs, small business development projects, housing development strategies, and overall neighborhood revitalization strategies.
Mr. Waheed is a freelance journalist for a statewide weekly newspaper and former Advisory Board Member and Consultant of the Alabama State University's Drop Out Prevention Program. He was the Media Art Specialist Instructor to Camp Eagle, a ASU Drop Out Preventer Center initiative. He developed Project Achieve, a hybrid of programs to help students and their parents with the social and academic development of youth. The ideas from Project Achieve comes from the years of work with community based programs, youth and their parents.
Mr. Waheed realized the need to share lessons learned to a younger generation and to assist adults with life challenges and to that end he works as a lifestyle coach and surrogate parent.
His first feature documentary was on the struggle of neighborhood residents surrounding an urban university to create a partnership of business, government, and education organizations to revitalize their neighborhood and is in production on a new documentary.
In 2002 he hosted and produced a weekly social commentary news television show, "Let's Talk About It". His media, community development skills and experiences were used to inform and educate community residents on methods to help improve their lives.
Selected Keynote Addresses and Presentations:
Lilly Foundation Visiting Scholar at Willamette University, Salem, Or
Martin Luther King Lecturer at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Ca
History Department Tougaloo College, Jackson, Ms
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Al
Alabama State University, Montgomery, Al
State Department of Archives and History Montgomery, Al
Visiting Scholar at Central State University, Warrensburg, Missouri
Presenter at William Winters Institute of Racial Conciliation, University of Mississipp
Mississippi Social Studies Conferences, Jackson, Ms
Alabama Social Studies Conference, Montgomery, Al
Professional development workshops Alcorn School District, Corinth, Ms,
Professional development workshops Jackson Public School District, Ms,
Media Arts Instructor Alabama State University Drop Out Prevention Project Camp Eagle, Montgomery, Al
Presenter at National HBCU Faculty Development Conferences and Civic Engagement Workshops, Tuskegee, Al
Presenter to students and teachers in secondary schools
Presenter at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) National Conference
Jackson State University Political Science Department
He published More Than A Bus Ride Curriculum Guide to assist teachers help students understand the deeper underlying forces that the seat on the bus symbolically represented, to motivate young people to take active roles in their local communities to "ensure the blessings of liberty and freedom for generations yet unborn" and herald the untold contributions of those brave and courageous women and men that have been largely ignored and credited to others in history books and classrooms. He is using teaching techniques and strategies from the guide in drop out prevention activities and programs.
Prior to his work in film/documentary, Mr. Waheed worked in the field of Community Economic Development. He developed youth intervention programs and organizations, senior citizen support programs, small business development projects, housing development strategies, and overall neighborhood revitalization strategies.
Mr. Waheed realized the need to share lessons learned to a younger generation and to assist adults with life challenges and to that end he works as a lifestyle coach and surrogate parent.
His first feature documentary was on the struggle of neighborhood residents surrounding an urban university to create a partnership of business, government, and education organizations to revitalize their neighborhood and is in production on a new documentary.
In 2002 he hosted and produced a weekly social commentary news television show, "Let's Talk About It". His media, community development skills and experiences were used to inform and educate community residents on methods to help improve their lives.
Selected Keynote Addresses and Presentations:
Lilly Foundation Visiting Scholar at Willamette University, Salem, Or
Martin Luther King Lecturer at Stanford University, Palo Alto, Ca
History Department Tougaloo College, Jackson, Ms
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Al
Alabama State University, Montgomery, Al
State Department of Archives and History Montgomery, Al
Visiting Scholar at Central State University, Warrensburg, Missouri
Presenter at William Winters Institute of Racial Conciliation, University of Mississipp
Mississippi Social Studies Conferences, Jackson, Ms
Alabama Social Studies Conference, Montgomery, Al
Professional development workshops Alcorn School District, Corinth, Ms,
Professional development workshops Jackson Public School District, Ms,
Media Arts Instructor Alabama State University Drop Out Prevention Project Camp Eagle, Montgomery, Al
Presenter at National HBCU Faculty Development Conferences and Civic Engagement Workshops, Tuskegee, Al
Presenter to students and teachers in secondary schools
Presenter at the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) National Conference
Jackson State University Political Science Department