NEOEA Day 2024 - Teacher Professional Development Workshop

Studying Civil Rights: Cleveland, Mississippi, and Resurrection City

Please note: all registrations must be submitted using the procedure and form detailed on page 2 of the NEOEA Day 2024 Guide.

Please note: this workshop is geared toward educators addressing students in grades 6-12

Place: Cleveland History Center, 10825 East Blvd., Cleveland 44106

Time: 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Chairperson: Mary Manning

AGENDA

This professional learning event will focus on ways that teachers can forge connections between the major national developments that characterized the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and local Civil Rights organizing in Cleveland. During the 2024-2025 academic year, the Cleveland History Center will host Solidarity Now! 1968 Poor People's Campaign, a travelling Smithsonian exhibit created by the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Using that exhibit and additional content from the WRHS Library, participating teachers will practice strategies for examining primary and secondary sources, and design classroom activities that incorporate information around the Civil Rights Movement from Cleveland, from Mississippi during voter registration activities in 1963-64, and from the Poor People's Campaign in 1968.

RESERVATIONS - all registrations must be submitted using the procedure and form detailed on page 2 of the NEOEA Day 2024 Guide.

Cost: $10 (no lunch break). Make check payable to Western Reserve Historical Society. Send check and registration form to Cleveland History Center, c/o Mary Manning, 10825 East Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44106.

For further information, contact Mary Manning at mmanning@wrhs.org or 216.721.5722, Ext. 1503.

Deadline: Sept. 30, 2024. (Limited to 25 participants.)

For more information on the Solidarity Now! field trip program available to students and teachers between September 10, 2024, and April 18, 2025, please see the Cleveland History Center's Education page.