“Stony the Road We Trod…”: Exploring Alabama’s Civil Rights Legacy

Selected educators journey to Alabama to walk in the footsteps of unsung foot soldiers and heralded leaders of the modern Civil Rights Movement. Designed to transform teaching and learning, this institute builds knowledge while providing pedagogical training. Participants engage in lectures by scholars, interact with iconic leaders and foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement, travel to key sites of memory as well as sites dedicated to preservation of history (in Birmingham, Selma, Montgomery, and Tuskegee, Alabama), and review archival film footage and other primary source documents as they develop curricular projects.