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Boston, Massachusetts--Imagine learning about the Civil Rights Movement directly from the people who were there—Rosa Parks describes her role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Reverend C.T. Vivian and Zecosy Williams reflect on the voting rights struggle in Alabama, and Miriam McClendon remembers what it was like to be arrested and jailed at age fourteen when she participated in the Children's Crusade of 1963. These voices, and many more, are part of The Civil Rights Special Collection launching on Teachers' Domain the week of May 17th to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's "Brown v. Board of Education" ruling. A preview of the collection is available at http://www.teachersdomain.org/special/civil/preview/.
The Civil Rights Special Collection on Teachers' Domain, a free digital library of multimedia resources for classroom and independent study, captures the voices, images, demonstrations, and resistance that defined the Civil Rights Movement through interview segments filmed for "Eyes on the Prize," primary source materials and oral histories from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, and archival video and audio segments from "American Experience," "Frontline," "People's Century," and other WGBH productions.
Why was "Brown v. Board of Education" so controversial? Why did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her seat on a bus? What happened when two interracial bus rides through the South tested a Supreme Court ruling? Why were 2,000 school children arrested for marching? How did the law change over time? This collection explores these questions and more.
Organized by topics including legal strategies, voting rights, mass protest, leaders and organizers, and culture of the Movement, The Civil Rights Special Collection will continue to expand throughout the year. The resources are accompanied by lesson plans, correlations to standards, and resource management tools to facilitate teachers' use of the library.
The Civil Rights Special Collection is an offering of Teachers' Domain (http:/www.teachersdomain.org), a free on-line digital library of K-12 resources correlated to national and state standards, which include background essays, lesson plans, and customizable resource management tools to facilitate use by teachers in the classroom. The Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection is produced by WGBH Boston in partnership with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Washington University in St. Louis. Funding is provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
For additional information about The Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection, please contact Lisa Cerqueira, WGBH Boston, at (617) 300-5334 or by e-mail at lisa_cerqueira@wgbh.org. For information regarding the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute's Oral History Collection, please contact Wayne Coleman, Head of Archives, at (205) 328-9696, ext. 218 or by e-mail at wcoleman@bcri.org.
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