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2020 NEH Teacher Institutes
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Application Deadline March 1
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Each year, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funds summer institutes for teachers. These tuition-free opportunities allow K--- 12 educators to study a variety of humanities topics. Stipends of $1,200-$3,300 help cover expenses for these programs, which vary in length from one to four weeks. The institutes featured below are a few that may be of interest to people's history educators.
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The Civil Rights Movement: Grassroots Perspectives
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July 6-24, 2020 | Durham, North Carolina
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Teaching for Change, co-coordinator of the Zinn Education Project, is honored to partner with a team of scholars, SNCC veterans, Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies, and the SNCC Legacy Project on a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Teacher Institute,
The Civil Rights Movement: Grassroots Perspectives
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Participants (classroom teachers in grades 5-- 12) will learn the bottom-up history of the Civil Rights Movement and receive resources and strategies to bring it home to their students. They will learn directly from the people who made the Civil Rights Movement happen, and from leading scholars of the era. Each participant selected for this institute receives a $2,700 stipend to help cover travel, housing, and meals.
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Additional NEH Institutes
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- The Long Road from Brown: School Desegregation in Virginia (Richmond, Virginia)
- Emancipation and Evolving American Identity (Richmond, Virginia)
- Freedom's Lawmakers: Black Leadership During Reconstruction (Columbia, South Carolina)
- Beyond the Mayflower: New Voices from Early America, 1500-1676 (Plymouth, Massachusetts)
- Labor and Landscape: Lowell as 19th-Century Crucible (Lowell, Massachusetts)
- The Immigrant Experience in California Through Literature and History (San José, California)
- Heart Mountain, Wyoming, and the Japanese American Incarceration (Cody, Wyoming)
- Harlem's Education Movements: Changing the Civil Rights Narrative (New York City)
- Borderlands of Southern Colorado (Alamosa, Colorado)
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Teach Voting Rights in 2020
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Following the Amendment's adoption, white supremacists waged a campaign of disenfranchisement to destroy its impact. After decades of struggle, through legal action, civil disobedience, and mass politics, the 1965 Voting Rights Act helped secure the promises of the 15th Amendment.
But in 2020, the 15th Amendment is increasingly under attack.
As today's voting rights activists combat new forms of disenfranchisement, it is vital that educators provide students historical context.
Toward that end, the
Zinn Education Project
is partnering with
Color of Change
on a campaign to teach about voting rights ---- in history and today ---- on this 150th anniversary of the 15th Amendment.
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New Lessons on Voting Rights
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A new unit with three lessons by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca provides essential historical context for the contemporary struggle against voter suppression and for voting rights in the United States.
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Teacher Mini-Grants to Commemorate
the 15th Amendment in 2020
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Thanks to a Zinn Education Project Teach Reconstruction campaign donor, we can offer
$100 for individual classroom projects and $250 for school-wide projects or events.
To be considered for a mini-grant, submit a short application that includes a description of how you plan to commemorate the 15th Amendment anniversary in your school. We ask that you also commit to reporting back with a summary of your activities and photos.
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A Toolkit for Voting Rights Activists
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The New Jim Crow for Classroom Story
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PO BOX 73038, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20056
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