The Long Road from Brown: School Desegregation in Virginia

FAIN: BH-250846-16

Old Dominion University Research Foundation (Norfolk, VA 23508-0369)
Yonghee Suh (Project Director: February 2016 to March 2021)
Brian J. Daugherity (Co Project Director: October 2016 to March 2021)

Two one-week workshops for seventy-two schoolteachers on school desegregation in Virginia.

This project offers two one week workshops on the topic of school desegregation in Virginia. Participants include 72 Grade 6-12 social studies/history teachers as a total. In these workshops, participants will visit significant historical sites associated with the topic, learn how to use primary sources in the archives and created their own curriculum on the topic. The first workshop will take place from July 9th through July 14th, 2017, and the second from July 23rd through July 28th, 2017.