Stony the Road We Trod: Using America's Civil Rights Landmarks to Teach American History

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Contact name
Priscilla Hancock Cooper
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Phone number
2053289696
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free; $1,200 stipend
Duration
One week
End Date

The Problem of the Color Line: Atlanta Landmarks and Civil Rights History

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From the Georgia State University website:

"While participating in our workshop in Atlanta, you will visit the sites where Civil Rights history was made. We have assembled a group of nationally known scholars who will share stories of the Civil Rights movement that reshaped the city, the region, and the nation. You will learn how to use Atlanta's historic sites to bring the Civil Rights Movement alive to your students.

"It was here in Atlanta in 1895 that Booker T. Washington delivered his 'Atlanta Compromise' address at the Cotton States and International Exposition. Eight years later in The Souls of Black Folk, Atlanta University professor W. E. B. DuBois predicted that the 'problem of the Twentieth Century [would be] the problem of the color line.' When Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on Auburn Avenue, a racial divide relegated African Americans to a second class status. Dr. King grew up to challenge the color line and make Atlanta the capital of a Civil Rights Movement that ended legalized segregation in America.

"Workshop field trips will take you to Piedmont Park where Booker T. Washington delivered his 'Atlanta Compromise' address and to Atlanta University where W. E. B. DuBois penned The Souls of Black Folk. Workshop scholars will lead you in the footsteps of Dr. King as he played in his childhood home, attended Morehouse College, pastored Ebenezer Baptist Church, and now is buried on Auburn Avenue with his wife Coretta.

"The historic landmarks that you will visit reveal the history of a segregated society and the struggle to dismantle it. The gold-domed Capitol building is where Jim Crow laws were passed and where African Americans protested their passage. The Fox Theater bears the imprint of the color line, with separate entrances, seating, and rest rooms for black and white theater goers. The downtown Rich's Department Store and City Hall are facilities, once segregated, which still carry the imprints of their Civil Rights battles. The roots of resistance to the color line began on Auburn Avenue, the historic heart of the African American business, civic, and religious communities, and on the Atlanta University Center campuses where students organized sit-ins and demonstrations in the 1960s. Atlanta has memorialized these events at the sites where Civil Rights history was made."

Contact name
Timothy Crimmins
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities, Georgia State University
Phone number
4044136356
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free; $1,200 stipend
Course Credit
"At the conclusion of the seminar, you will be provided with certificates verifying your attendance at all required sessions. There will be approximately 35 hours of actual instruction within the Workshop. You should determine in advance to what degree your state or local school districts will accept participation in the Workshop for continuing education units. However, the Georgia State University will work with you to provide sufficient documentation for your school district."
Duration
One week
End Date

The Problem of the Color Line: Atlanta Landmarks and Civil Rights History

Description

From the Georgia State University website:

"While participating in our workshop in Atlanta, you will visit the sites where Civil Rights history was made. We have assembled a group of nationally known scholars who will share stories of the Civil Rights movement that reshaped the city, the region, and the nation. You will learn how to use Atlanta's historic sites to bring the Civil Rights Movement alive to your students.

"It was here in Atlanta in 1895 that Booker T. Washington delivered his 'Atlanta Compromise' address at the Cotton States and International Exposition. Eight years later in The Souls of Black Folk, Atlanta University professor W. E. B. DuBois predicted that the 'problem of the Twentieth Century [would be] the problem of the color line.' When Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on Auburn Avenue, a racial divide relegated African Americans to a second class status. Dr. King grew up to challenge the color line and make Atlanta the capital of a Civil Rights Movement that ended legalized segregation in America.

"Workshop field trips will take you to Piedmont Park where Booker T. Washington delivered his 'Atlanta Compromise' address and to Atlanta University where W. E. B. DuBois penned The Souls of Black Folk. Workshop scholars will lead you in the footsteps of Dr. King as he played in his childhood home, attended Morehouse College, pastored Ebenezer Baptist Church, and now is buried on Auburn Avenue with his wife Coretta.

"The historic landmarks that you will visit reveal the history of a segregated society and the struggle to dismantle it. The gold-domed Capitol building is where Jim Crow laws were passed and where African Americans protested their passage. The Fox Theater bears the imprint of the color line, with separate entrances, seating, and rest rooms for black and white theater goers. The downtown Rich's Department Store and City Hall are facilities, once segregated, which still carry the imprints of their Civil Rights battles. The roots of resistance to the color line began on Auburn Avenue, the historic heart of the African American business, civic, and religious communities, and on the Atlanta University Center campuses where students organized sit-ins and demonstrations in the 1960s. Atlanta has memorialized these events at the sites where Civil Rights history was made."

Contact name
Timothy Crimmins
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
National Endowment for the Humanities, Georgia State University
Phone number
4044136356
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free; $1,200 stipend
Course Credit
"At the conclusion of the seminar, you will be provided with certificates verifying your attendance at all required sessions. There will be approximately 35 hours of actual instruction within the Workshop. You should determine in advance to what degree your state or local school districts will accept participation in the Workshop for continuing education units. However, the Georgia State University will work with you to provide sufficient documentation for your school district."
Duration
One week
End Date

The Civil Rights Movement

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From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History:

"This seminar explores how an economically and politically powerless racial minority wrested dramatic change from a determined and entrenched white majority in the American South. It will examine the changing nature of protest from the 1940s to the 1950s; the roles of Martin Luther King, Jr., local movements, and women; and the relative importance of violence and non-violence. Participants will discuss how they can use the experiences of schoolchildren, teachers, and students in the crises of the 1950s and 1960s to bring home the realities of the civil rights movement in the classroom. Topics include the Little Rock 9 and their teachers in 1957, students and sit-ins, and the use of schoolchildren in the 1963 Birmingham demonstrations."

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
6463669666
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free, $500 stipend
Course Credit
"The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is proud to announce its agreement with Adams State College to offer three hours of graduate credit in American history to participating seminar teachers. Teachers are required to submit a reflection paper and a copy of one primary source activity completed during or immediately after the seminar."
Duration
One week
End Date

Civil Rights in America

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From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History:

"The modern civil rights movement was the most important social protest movement of the twentieth century. The movement helped cultivate national leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Bayard Rustin and Fannie Lou Hamer. It was responsible for eradicating the American Apartheid system known as Jim Crow and it was the major reason for the passage of some of the most important laws in twentieth century America, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This explores the origins of the civil rights movement and its impact on America."

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
6463669666
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free, $400 stipend
Course Credit
"The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is proud to announce its agreement with Adams State College to offer three hours of graduate credit in American history to participating seminar teachers. Teachers are required to submit a reflection paper and a copy of one primary source activity completed during or immediately after the seminar." Duration:
Duration
One week
End Date

The Sixties in Historical Perspective

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From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History:

"This seminar will explore a controversial era shrouded in myths and memories. Among the topics it will examine are the presidencies of John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon; the civil rights movement; the Vietnam War; the New Left; the counterculture; the women's movement; the gay movement; the conservative movement; the international dimension of youth protest; and the legacies of the 1960s. The aim of the seminar is to provide a balanced history of a turbulent time that continues to influence American politics, society, and culture.

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
6463669666
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free, $400 stipend
Course Credit
"The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is proud to announce its agreement with Adams State College to offer three hours of graduate credit in American history to participating seminar teachers. Teachers are required to submit a reflection paper and a copy of one primary source activity completed during or immediately after the seminar."
Duration
One week
End Date

The South in American History

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From the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History:

"The American South plays a central role in American history, from the first permanent English colony through the election of 2008. This course will focus on key episodes when Southern history and the history of the nation intersected at particularly important points: the emergence and spread of slavery, the founding, the Civil War, the creation of segregation, and the civil rights struggle. The course will be taught in Richmond, Virginia, a city rich in museums and historic sites that we will use to explore the subjects addressed in the seminar."

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
6463669666
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free, $400 stipend
Course Credit
"The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is proud to announce its agreement with Adams State College to offer three hours of graduate credit in American history to participating seminar teachers. Teachers are required to submit a reflection paper and a copy of one primary source activity completed during or immediately after the seminar."
Duration
Five days
End Date

The South in American History

Description

The American South plays a central role in American history, from the first permanent English colony through the election of 2008. This course will focus on key episodes when Southern history and the history of the nation intersected at particularly important points: the emergence and spread of slavery, the founding, the Civil War, the creation of segregation, and the civil rights struggle. The course will be taught in Richmond, Virginia, a city rich in museums and historic sites that the seminar will use to explore the subjects addressed in the seminar.

Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Phone number
646-366-9666
Target Audience
Middle and high school
Start Date
Cost
Free; $400 stipend granted
Course Credit
Pittsburg State University (PSU) is pleased to offer graduate credit to workshop participants at a tuition fee of $199 per credit hour. Participants can receive three graduate credit hours for the duration of the week.
Duration
Four days
End Date

"Stony the Road We Trod": Alabama's Role in the Modern Civil Rights Movement

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From Bombingham to Selma, Montgomery to Tuskegee, Alabama's people and places left an indelible mark on the world in the 1950s and 1960s. From Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver to the Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, Alabama citizens have been at the forefront of the crusade to improve African Americans' lot in life in the United States. Selma's citizens began a march in 1965 to protest the killing of one man. This day became known as Bloody Sunday. Now the citizens of Selma have created a people's museum so the world will not forget those tumultuous days and will remember the people's stories. Teachers in this workshop work with noted scholars, converse with living legends, participate in discussion groups, meet foot soldiers of the movement, and travel to key sites of memory dedicated to the preservation of the history of the modern Civil Rights Movement.

Contact name
Cooper, Priscilla Hancock
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute
Phone number
205-328-9696
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free; $750 stipend
Duration
One week
End Date