Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching A curriculum guide for K-12 classrooms The Network of Educators on the Americas (NECA) & the Poverty and Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) invite you to submit materials for "Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching," a K-12 curriculum guide, to be followed by a series of professional development institutes. Taught as a multifaceted people's struggle for social justice, the Civil Rights Movement can help students develop a critical analysis of racism and resistance enabling them understand their role in implementing social change. The central themes will include: * The multiple strategies used during the Civil Rights Movement * The Movement prior to the 1950's and its continuation today * The Movement's impact on other national and international social and liberation movements * The creation and role of culture in the Movement The focus areas will be citizenship, education and labor. We seek interactive, interdisciplinary lessons, readings, graphics, and/or interviews. We hope that you will join us in our effort to create this dynamic publication. Publication date is Summer 2001. Submit articles and lessons ASAP to: NECA/Teaching for Change P.O. Box 73038 Washington, DC 20056-3038 (800) 763.9131 necadc@aol.com http://www.teachingforchange.org
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