American History Teachers' Collaborative Summer Institute: The Civil Rights Movement

American History Teachers' Collaborative
Summer Institute

The Civil Rights Movement

Monday, July 26, 2010

Agenda

8:00 - 8:30	Welcome and introductions
8:30 - 10:30	Patricia Sullivan, Roots of the Civil Rights Movement

10:45 – 11:15	Break and book signing
11:15 - 12:00	Lunch
12:00 - 12:45	Assignment Explanation
12:45 - 1:30	Breakout session #1 - Time in the computer lab to review resources provided on CD -OR- a clip from Murder in Mississippi
1:30 - 1:45	Break
1:45 - 2:30	Breakout session #2 - switch groups
2:30 - 2:45	Break
2:45 - 3:15	Breakout session #3 - Time in the computer lab to take the teacher test and review web resources -OR- a video clip from Malcolm X
3:15 - 3:30	Break
3:30 - 4:00	Breakout session #4 - switch groups
4:00 - 4:30	Closing remarks and evaluations

Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Agenda

8:00 - 8:45	Welcome and introductions
8:445 - 9:30	Ilyasah Shabazz, Growing Up X

9:30 - 9:40	Break
9:40 - 10:25	Book signing
10:25 - 10:50	Breakout session #1 - Choose from one of the following: Discussion session with Ilyasah Shabazz -OR- Assignment explanation (for teachers new to the AHTC) -OR- Community Resource Expo
10:50 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 11:25	Breakout session #2 - Choose from one of the following: Discussion session with Ilyasah Shabazz - OR- Assignment explanation (for teachers new to the AHTC) -OR- Community Resource Expo
11:25 - 12:15	Lunch
12:15 - 1:15	Barry Bradford, Reopening and Closing the Mississippi Burning Murders
1:15 - 1:30	Break
1:30 - 2:15	Breakout session #3 - Choose from one of the following: Discussion session with Barry Bradford -OR- Discussion session with Dr. Preston L. Williams, Jr.

2:15 - 2:30	Break
2:30 - 3:15	Breakout session #4 - Choose from one of the following: Discussion session with Barry Bradford -OR- Disicussion session with Dr. Preston L. Williams, Jr.
3:15 - 3:30	Break
3:30 - 4:15	Documentary clips from Eyes on the Prize
4:15 - 4:30	Closing remarks and evaluations

Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Agenda

8:00 - 8:30	Welcome and introductions
8:30 - 10:30	Bobby Seale, From the Sixties to the Future

10:30 - 11:30	Break and book signing
11:30 - 12:15	Breakout session #1 – Choose from one of the following: Discussion session with Bobby Seale OR Documentary clips from Eyes on the Prize
12:15 - 1:00	Lunch
1:00 - 1:45	Breakout session #2 – switch groups
1:45 - 2:00	Break
2:00 - 2:40	Mini-session #1 – Choose from one of the following: -Terry Townsend, “An Overview of the Civil Rights and Opportunity Movement and its Relationship to the National Movement” -Izona Burgess, “A Journey Through Milestones in the Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968” -A Book Talk with Carol Inskeep
2:40 - 2:50	Break
2:50 - 3:30	Mini-session #2 – Choose from one of the following: -Terry Townsend, “An Overview of the Civil Rights and Opportunity Movement and its Relationship to the National Movement” -Renayee Westfield, “An Introduction to African American Efforts in World War II” -A Book Talk with Carol Inskeep
3:30 - 3:40	Break
3:40 - 4:20	Mini-session #3 - Choose from one of the following: -Izona Burgess, “A Journey Through Milestones in the Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1968” -Renayee Westfield, “An Introduction to African American Efforts in World War II” -Documentary Clips from Eyes on the Prize
4:20 - 4:30	Closing remarks and evaluations

Thursday, July 29, 2010
Agenda

8:00 - 8:15	Welcome and introductions
8:15 - 9:45	Jullian Bond, What We Did

9:45- 10:45	Break and book signing
10:45 - 11:30	Breakout session #1 – Choose from one of the following: Discussion session with Julian Bond -OR- Review of assignment expectations -OR- a clip from the film 4 Little Girls
11:30 - 11:45	Break
11:45 - 12:30	Breakout session #2 – Choose from one of the following: Discussion session with Julian Bond -OR- Review of assignment expectations -OR- a clip from the film 4 Little Girls
12:30 - 2:00	Lunch on your own
2:00 - 4:30	Time for teachers to work on assignments

Friday, July 30, 2010
Agenda

8:00 - 8:30	Welcome and introductions
8:30 - 9:15	Mini-session #1: Choose from one of the following: -Amos Lee, “Race, Riots, and Reality" -Book talk with Carol Inskeep -Clips from The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till

9:15 - 9:30	Break
9:30 - 10:15	Mini-session #2: Choose from one of the following: -Amos Lee, “Race, Riots, and Reality" -Book talk with Carol Inskeep -Clips from The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
10:15 - 10:45	Group Photo & Break
10:45 - 11:30	Mini-session #3: Choose from one of the following: -Jennifer Bredemeier, “Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Discrimination in Employment” -Mary Anne Jusko, “From Barbershops in Champaign, IL to Bus Boycotts in Montgomery, AL: All’s Not Fair in 1954-1955 America” -Clips from The Rosa Parks Story

11:30 - 11:45	Break
11:45 - 12:30	Mini-session #4: Choose from one of the following: -Jennifer Bredemeier, “Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Discrimination in Employment” -Mary Anne Jusko, “From Barbershops in Champaign, IL to Bus Boycotts in Montgomery, AL: All’s Not Fair in 1954-1955 America” -Clips from The Rosa Parks Story
12:30 - 4:00	Time for teachers to work on assignments

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