The National Civil Rights Museum will continue its 2024-2025 Teacher Workshop series with this session on a newly released book which connects past to present in ways that empower and engage. Join us virtually, as we explore, From Rights to Lives, edited by Dr. Françoise Hamlin (Brown University) and Dr. Charles McKinney, (Rhodes College). We will learn about the book’s development process, why it was necessary for the book to be created, obstacles that were overcome, and how the book can be an impactful resource for K-12 teachers. We will highlight a few of the book’s most relevant chapters for teaching in the K-12 classrooms and encouraging young people today to be agents for more just and equitable futures.
Background on the text, From Rights to Lives:
The generally understood ideas of the Civil Rights Movement of 1950's-60's and the newer #BlackLivesMatter Movement have similar qualities. They both represent dynamic, complex moments of possibility and progress. They also share mass-based movement activities, policy/legislative advocacy, grassroots organizing, and targeted media campaigns. Innovation, growth, and dissension—core aspects of movement work—mark them both. These moments also engender aggressive, repressive, multi-level responses to these assertions of Black Humanity.
From Rights to Lives critically engages the dynamic relationship between these two moments of liberatory possibility on the Black Freedom Struggle timeline. NCRM Education Manager Dory Lerner will moderate the conversation between Dr. Hamlin and Dr. McKinney, as they share with us some of the essential ideas of this powerful book. There will be opportunities for Q & A with these two featured authors, scholars, and professors of Africana Studies.
MSCS teachers will receive credits in PLZ. Free autographed copies of the book will go to the first five educators to register and join the workshop. This workshop is FREE and is part of the National Civil Rights Museum’s effort to inspire educators and schools to teach courageously and to create more inclusive learning environments.
Head to https://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/teacher-workshop to learn more and register