Tag Archives: Civil Rights Movement

2020 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Anti-Racism and Pedagogy: What Does it Mean to be an Anti-racist Teacher?

The Civil Rights Movement, Black Lives Matter, and anti-racism: Dismantling Systems of Oppression

Andrew Bartkowiak, Social Studies, Northwest School of the Arts

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2020 Curriculum Units Vol 6: Anti-Racism and Pedagogy: What Does it Mean to be an Anti-racist Teacher?

From Heroism and Exceptionalism to Complexity and Community: A Revised Narrative of the Civil Rights Movement and the Power of People

Elizabeth Haynes, Social Studies, South Mecklenburg High

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2020 Curriculum Units Vol 1: African American Poetry and the Idea of Citizenship

My Country, My Voice: Teaching the Progression of the Concept of Citizenship from the Eras of Slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement

April Louzini, 4th Grade, E.E. Waddell Language Academy

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Making a Menace to Society: The Criminalization of Black Men and Boys

Yasmin Forbes, African American Studies, Mallard Creek High

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2019 Curriculum Units Vol 4: Children in War and Conflict

The Civil Rights Movement: Young Participants, Martyrs and Volunteers

Pia Townes, Social Studies, Wilson STEM Academy

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2014 Curriculum Units Vol 6: The Art of Fiction: Close Analysis, Style and the Novel

Teaching Tolerance through the Civil Rights Movement

Amy Stokes, Social Studies, Lebanon Road Elementary School

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2013 Curriculum Units Vol 1: Charlotte as a New South City: Using the Collections of the Levine Museum of the New South

Charlotte’s Fight to Desegregate Our Schools, From Dorothy Counts to Swann v. CMS: 1957-1971

Roshan Varghese, History, Butler High School

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2013 Curriculum Units Vol 1: Charlotte as a New South City: Using the Collections of the Levine Museum of the New South

The Struggle for Equality

Adell Treadwell, Fifth Grade, Bain Elementary School

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2012 Curriculum Units Vol 7: African American Literature of the Civil Rights Movement

Snapshot Into the Civil Rights Movement

Intisar Kameelah Hamidullah, Language Arts, Whitewater Middle School

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2012 Curriculum Units Vol 7: African American Literature of the Civil Rights Movement

Visualizing Literature: Handmade Books Inspired by Poetry, Politics & Art from the Civil Rights Movement after 1950

May M. Winiarski, Visual Arts (Prof. & Adv), East Mecklenburg High School

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2012 Curriculum Units Vol 7: African American Literature of the Civil Rights Movement

Our Common Threads: A Month of Our American Stories Through the Art, Music, and Literature of the Civil Rights Movement

Karen Ann Donaldson, Language Arts, Collinswood Language Academy

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2012 Curriculum Units Vol 7: African American Literature of the Civil Rights Movement

Studying the Civil Rights Movement through The Help

Beth Brang, Hon. English I, William Amos Hough High School

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2012 Curriculum Units Vol 2: Reading African American Lives

Uncovering Human Truth Across Genres

Stephanie Misko, English, William Amos Hough High School

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