Program

Education Programs: Institutes for Higher Education Faculty

Period of Performance

9/1/1996 - 9/30/1997

Funding Totals

$191,000.00 (approved)
$182,520.09 (awarded)


Teaching the History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, 1865 to 1965

FAIN: EH-22163-96

President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA 02138-3800)
Henry Louis Gates (Project Director: March 1996 to February 1998)

A five-week summer institute devoted to reading and discussion of the Southern civil-rights movement within the full context of modern U.S. history. Teachersattending will develop ways to incorporate the history into their own courses.