Learn about less-covered topics in American history by engaging with primary sources and seeing how their inclusion in our national narratives change the ways we engage with the past. Emphasis will be on having attendees work directly with primary source material.
Eight months before Rosa Parks took a seat for justice, Claudette Colvin and three other women kicked off a legal battle that would culminate in the case Gayle v Browder striking down segregation in the bus system and effectively overturning the doctrine of separate but equal. For this session we will have the Civil Rights Education trunk on loan from the Greensboro History Museum to help engage more directly with this history. 