International Scholars Study Civil Rights
July 17-Aug. 4, nearly 40 teachers and educators from England and the United States will gather in Birmingham for a course,
"Birmingham's Civil Rights Movement," sponsored by UAB and Birmingham Public Schools. Participants will examine the civil rights era by visiting historic sites in Selma, Memphis and Atlanta and meeting people who participated in the movement. The course evolved from a study course at the University of Liverpool in England, which examined that city's link to the slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries.
"The goal is to reach the younger teachers who didn't grow up during the civil rights movement," says UAB coordinator Virginia Volker, Ph.D., "so that they can take this knowledge back to their own students." Contact Gail Short, Media Relations, 205-934 8931 or [email protected].
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