TTT#583 Charlottesville Civil Rights Pilgrimage - Join educators who were on the bus last week!
Channel: Paul Allison
Date: 2018-07-18

Teachers Teaching Teachers returns (after a brief summer interlude) with educators from the Charlottesville Civil Rights Pilgrimage. https://twitter.com/search?q=%23cvillepilgrimage&src=tyah

Join +Dan Doernberg (resident of Charlottesville and our friend from NowComment) and two Charlottesville City School teachers, Rachel Caldwell and Melvin Grady.



Join us on http://edtechtalk.com/ttt on Wednesday evening at 8E/7C/6M/5P.



Our guests have just returned from a bus trip stopped at important civil rights sites from Charlottesville, Virginia to the Equal Justice Initiative's Legacy Museum & National Memorial to Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama.



Hear their stories at each of these stops:



--Day Before, Saturday, July 7: Soil collection from lynching of John Henry James and screening of the documentary "An Outrage" (Charlottesville, VA)



--Day One, Sunday, July 8: Appomattox Court House National Historical Park (Appomattox, VA) & “History United” presentation about the history of the Civil Rights Movement (Danville, VA)



--Day Two, Monday, July 9: Greensboro International Civil Rights Center and Museum (Woolworths lunch counter) and Levine Museum of the New South tour (Charlotte, NC)



--Day Three, Tuesday, July 10: King Center and other Rev King sites (Atlanta, GA)



--Day Four, Wednesday, July 11: Visit 16th  Street Baptist Church (Birmingham, AL)



--Day Five, July 12: Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial Center (Montgomery, AL) and delivering John Henry James soil to the EJI  Legacy Museum & National Memorial to Peace and Justice (Montgomery, AL)



--Day Six, July 13: return to Charlottesville



Join us to talk about what they learned and what we can all learn from this pilgrimage.