A seminar agenda noted that teachers would receive two children's books to consider for classroom use: the elementary-targeted ' White Socks Only ' and, for middle schoolers, ' The Watsons Go to Birmingham.

Seminar attendees would then work with a curriculum specialist to translate that history into grade-appropriate lesson plans and classroom resources. Board of Education decision, the March on Washington, the integration of the University of Mississippi, and the Montgomery bus boycott. (Osceola County, just southeast of Orlando, has a population of close to 400,000, which is nearly two-thirds Black or Latino, and a median household income of $52,000, well below the national median.)īutler, the author of multiple books about Southern and civil rights history, including most recently ' Beyond Integration: The Black Freedom Struggle in Escambia County, Florida, 1960-1980 ,' planned three presentations, covering historic milestones like the Brown v. Augustine, was supposed to lead a day-long seminar for Osceola County elementary school teachers on 'The Long Civil Rights Movement.' The event was hosted by the nonprofit National Council for History Education, a leading provider of professional development for history teachers, and was part of a three-year partnership between the council and the district to enrich history education at underserved public schools. Michael Butler, the Kenan Distinguished Professor of History at Flagler College in St.

racial history, a school district in central Florida canceled a teacher training seminar about the civil rights movement that had been months in the planning. The day after the Florida state Senate's education committee passed a bill banning public schools and private businesses from making people feel 'discomfort' when learning about U.S.

Kathryn joyce quiverfull