When COVID-19 stormed America in March, Christine King Mitchell took a break from her job as a docent at the Old Slave Mart Museum in Charleston, S.C.
PBS, National Geographic, and universities, among others, have published educational content about slavery online, but where Mitchell can help is by offering smart, succinct curriculums for K-12 schools, Mount said. In many places, school boards or state curriculums “can mandate a course on slavery, but it won’t get done unless an activist pushes it,” he said. “So you need activists doing this kind of work.
In the 1990s, she created a “Museum on Wheels” — including newspapers and a copy of Frederick Douglass’ 1855 autobiography — and toured Georgia schools with it, reaching over 10,000 teachers and students, she said. Mitchell has visited schools around the U.S., speaking as far afield as Colorado and Rhode Island. Even Ph.D.s “don’t know it all,” she said. “They do know a lot about a specific area of study, but it takes a village to tell a story.
When the museum closed in March, Mitchell went on unemployment. The museum is now open again, with limit of 15 people at a time, but Mitchell is worried about the coronavirus, so she doesn’t want to go back until it’s safe. She’s still busy though. Tokanel is now helping Mitchell design her website, to be called either “Slavery and Freedom in Black and White” or “The Business of Slavery.”
splcenter slavery of the south to the north you mean
splcenter That's certainly in part because progressive educators teach that Lincoln/the Union did not want to end slavery at all. They still teach about slavery/racial oppression more than any other topic in US history. Students also don't know that the US was a British colony.
splcenter I thought it was about what color uniforms the military was going to wear? And that’s why it was called the “Blue vs Gray”
splcenter Try your work in RAP TO A Beat. I bet the children will pick it up. I knew this teacher in Durham NC who put his math to RAP. Students had it learned in short order. The school board didn't like the teachers intervention.
splcenter That's because it was about state's rights.
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