The Civil Rights Movement in Context
"Too often, our students view Civil Rights in isolation—they don't understand the rich historical background of African American history or the legacies of the movement in the more recent past. They know the major civil rights figures like Martin Luther King, Jr. or Rosa Parks, but they don't grasp the complexities of civil rights leadership, or the experience of the movement's foot soldiers—the students in SNCC, the freedom riders, or the everyday people who marched, boycotted, protested, and volunteered to make the movement happen. This course will try to explore the movement from all of these perspectives using, where possible, first-hand accounts from the people who lived this important history.
The instructor will assume that the main historical outlines of the movement are familiar to K-12 teachers—instead of recounting that basic history, we'll spend much of our time delving into lesser-studied events of the movement and the primary sources that will allow us to explore our own ideas about the movement and its meanings in detail.
The best way to learn history is by doing history. This course will allow for the opportunity for deep historical analysis and interpretation using primary sources. We'll tackle documents, images, newspaper accounts, artistic expressions, film, and other sources. By doing so, we'll develop our own arguments and ideas about the movement, and help our future students do the same. Many of the resources we will use have been recently added to the Internet and they should be exciting additions to the course, and to historical scholarship more broadly. As you mine these sources, you'll hopefully enjoy the historical process and also get some great ideas for classroom activities for your students.
The instructor has selected websites and multimedia resources that will give participating teachers access to literally thousands of documents including newspaper accounts, oral history interviews, government documents, photographs, works of art, film clips, and more. As a participant, you will have the opportunity to analyze these sources through engaging activities to create a lesson plan for classroom use; to receive individualized, constructive feedback and answers to content-oriented questions from a well-versed instructor; and to join other teachers from across the state in lively online discussions throughout the course—all on your own schedule from home or from your school's computers."
The statue stands in Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham, AL. The park, which predates the civil rights movement, was used by Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) as a staging point for nonviolent protests in 1963. Protesters, many of them local schoolchildren, massed here to organize for sit-ins, boycotts, and marches; in the streets around the park, law enforcement officers drenched protestors with fire hoses and menaced them with dogs. Photographs of these events created some of the most enduring images of the movement. 
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Park in Seattle, WA, honors the memory of King with an abstract sculpture inspired by his final speech, "I've Been to the Mountaintop." No specific event in the civil rights movement or in King's life took place at this location; like memorials, events, and other observances nationwide, the Memorial Park sculpture, by Seattle artist Robert Kelly, reminds the surrounding community not of specific historical events but of the assumed spirit of King's life and of the civil rights movement.
Sculptor Patrick Morelli's BEHOLD stands in the Peace Plaza in Atlanta, GA. Around the plaza range sites important in the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., including his birth home and Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King preached as co-pastor with his father. Newer sites also surround the statue and plaza: The King Center, the location of King's tomb, founded by King's widow, Coretta Scott King, and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Visitor Center, maintained by the National Park Service.
The Martin Luther King, Jr., National Memorial does not yet exist, but the memorial's design has been completed and ground broken, ceremonially, on the proposed site. When finished, the envisioned four-acre memorial will be positioned along the edge of the Tidal Basin, along a sightline stretching from the Lincoln Memorial to the Jefferson Memorial. Difficulties and controversy have dogged the memorial's progress, including backlash when Chinese sculptor Lei Yixin was chosen to carve the nearly-three-story-tall statue of King that will anchor the memorial.
The National Park Service's travel itinerary 
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