Teaching ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ School History Project: Teaching the ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ 13
The Civil Rights Movement is often taught in ways that center the experiences of adults that live outside of the communities in which children live and learn. Although children were instrumental in the Civil Rights Movement (Theoharis, 2018), their stories and the stories of people they know and love are rarely discussed in elementary schools (Hess, 2005; Ladson-Billings, 2004). Studying local school desegregation offers a way for children to make sense of racism and to see themselves represented as agents of change (An, 2017, 2020; Santiago, 2017).
In the Teaching ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ 13 project, collaborators from the University of ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ Department of Instruction and Curriculum Leadership >, , and are working together to create and disseminate a curriculum for elementary school students to share the stories of the 13 first graders who integrated ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ schools in 1961. This project is generously funded by the .