| BH-231421-15 | Education Programs: Landmarks of American History and Culture for K-12 Educators | Alabama Humanities Foundation | "Stony the Road We Trod...": Alabama's Role in the Modern Civil Rights Movement | 10/1/2015 - 12/1/2016 | $179,370.00 | Martha | V. | Bouyer | | | | Alabama Humanities Foundation | Birmingham | AL | 35205-7011 | USA | 2015 | U.S. History | Landmarks of American History and Culture for K-12 Educators | Education Programs | 179370 | 0 | 179370 | 0 | Two one-week Landmarks workshops for seventy-two school teachers on the history and legacy of the civil rights movement in Alabama.
"Stony the Road" is a comprehensive, interactive teacher workshop that includes lectures by renowned scholars, an opportunity to enter into discourse with movement participants, development of instructional units, and travel to key sites of memory dedicated to the Modern Civil Rights Movement. Each week of Stony the Road We Trod (Stony), teachers will participate in a comprehensive study of the Modern Civil Rights Movement and the role that Alabama played in thrusting the struggle for civil rights to the forefront of every media outlet in the world. Teachers, by participating in interactive lectures and discourse with noted scholars and historians, will come to understand the true impact of the movement and how the events in Alabama were central to the movement. The two week-long sessions will take run June 26-July 2 and July 10-16, 2016. |