Teach Tolerance with Civil Rights Primary Sources Library of Congress (LOC) and Teaching Tolerance are collaborating to offer teachers a series of free online workshops inspired by LOC’s current exhibition, The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom. The series will present dozens of relevant primary sources from the Library’s collections coupled with teaching ideas that provide educators with prompt analysis and informed debate by their students. All workshops will take place at 4 pm ET. Check out other LOC teacher resources. Jan. 22: Civil Rights and Analyzing Images. Participants will analyze an image from LOCs collections and discuss questioning techniques to help students build understanding about the movements complexity. Register here. Feb. 19: Building Literacy Skills and Teaching about the Civil Rights Movement with Primary Sources. Participants will explore a map, its significance to the movement, and its context—the world in which it was created and not just the world that it shows. March 19: Identifying Bias and Perspective when Teaching about the Civil Rights Act of 1964. This session will examine Teaching Tolerances five essential practices as applied to teaching the civil rights movement – educate for empowerment, know how to talk about race, capture the unseen, tell a complicated story and connect to the present. April 16: Selecting Primary Sources to Examine the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Education experts will lead participants in selecting primary sources while discussing the goals of teaching about the civil rights movement to include events, leaders, groups, history, obstacles, tactics and connections to other movements, current events and civic participation.
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