Program

Education Programs: Institutes for K-12 Educators

Period of Performance

10/1/2004 - 12/31/2005

Funding Totals

$176,000.00 (approved)
$176,000.00 (awarded)


Slavery, Literacy, and Freedom: African American Literature, Culture, and Folklore in the Secondary School Classroom

FAIN: ES-50070-04

George Mason University (Fairfax, VA 22030-4444)
Marilyn M. McKenzie (Project Director: March 2004 to September 2006)

A four-week summer institute for twenty-five school teachers on nineteenth-century African American literature and culture, centered on the themes of slavery, literacy, and freedom.