Civil Rights Movement

UVA Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice, with a joint appointment in the Corcoran Department of History and the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies. Author of Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture During the Twentieth Century (University of North Carolina Press, 1996) The Civil Rights movement in America was carried out during the height of the Cold War, and with the fight against Communism as a backdrop. This conversation with a prominent Civil Rights scholar will focus on the tendency to equate the fight for racial equality and justice with America’s “enemies,” [...]

Join Kate McLeod of the High Museum of Art and Lisa Landers of the Georgia Historical Society to explore teaching history through art. This forty-five-minute professional development session will take a deep dive into the roles of women and girls as leaders and activists during the civil rights movement. Focusing on icons of the movement such as Coretta Scott King, Ruby Bridges, and the scientists and mathematicians featured in the book Hidden Figures, the session will present strategies for examining art and primary sources such as historical documents in the elementary-school classroom. Participants will be introduced to Picture the Dream: [...]