XXI: DJC SOUTHERN TRIP 2018

NY –> OH –> OK –> TX –> LA –> MS –> AL –> SC –> NJ –> NY

On October 6, Die Jim Crow producer Fury Young will leave Brooklyn NY for a two-week trip down south. We have launched a GoFundMe — please support here.

Like the DJC Southern Trip 2017 , this year will follow a similar trajectory: a conference in Dallas and appointments with collaborators and prisons along the way and back.

Also like the 2017 trip, there will be many surprises during this journey announced after the fact.

View our Blogs from last year’s trip:
Part 1: Baltimore, Nashville, Memphis, Holly Springs, Oxford, Dallas
Part 2: Dallas, Gatesville, Huntsville
Part 3: NOLA, Birmingham, Joelton, Maple Shade

Joe Byrd Cemetery, a potter’s field of prisoner’s grave in Huntsville, TX (photo: Fury Young, from 2017 south trip)

Goals:
1. To continue to gain access to facilities (so far, we have recorded in Ohio, Colorado, and soon South Carolina)

2. To attend rehearsals at the two South Carolina prisons Die Jim Crow will be recording in next year:

• Camille Graham Correctional Institution: a maximum-security women’s state prison in Columbia, SC.

• Allendale Correctional Institution: a medium-security men’s state prison in Fairfax, SC.

3. To present at the International Prisoner’s Family Conference; building awareness and networking around the project. Last year, Fury built connections which would eventually gain him access to Colorado DOC.

4. To visit with formerly incarcerated Die Jim Crow collaborators along the way: Tameca Cole (Birmingham, AL), Maxwell Melvins (Maple Shade, NJ), and others should the timing align.

Tameca Cole in her kitchen

We need your support because funding is tight at the moment. We recently began the process of forming Die Jim Crow as a non-profit, which will help us pursue significant foundation funding going forward. But we can’t stop moving forward with Die Jim Crow while we wait for our Articles of Incorporation and 501c3 status. Die Jim Crow producer Fury Young recently left his job as a carpenter in order to purse the project full time. He is living off of savings and short freelance gigs in the meantime and is rolling the dice. We need your support. Thank you.