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Young, Gifted and Black: Teaching Freedom Summer to K-5 Students – w/ Nicole Burrowes. La Tasha Levy and Liz Kleinrock
Teaching Hard History - January 26, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsTeaching civil rights history to young learners creates both opportunities and challenges. The 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project and the subsequent Freedom Schools offer important lessons for helping elementary students to understand the civil rights movement. In this episode, we explore c...
Checking In: Listener Feedback and Discussing the U.S. Capitol Attack
Teaching Hard History - January 19, 2021 15:54 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsIf you're finding this podcast useful, please support us by taking our Listener Survey—only 10 questions—at learningforjustice.org/podcasts. And stay tuned! More episodes are on the way. In the meantime, if you're looking for ways to talk with students about the relationship between the hard...
Making a Scene: The Movement in Literature and Film – w/ Julie Buckner Armstrong
Teaching Hard History - December 22, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsFrom the hard work of organizing to the reality of everyday life under Jim Crow, films and literature can bring historical context to life for students. In this episode, we recommend several “must use” films, books, poems and plays for teaching the civil rights movement. We also discuss strategi...
The Real Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott – w/ Emilye Crosby
Teaching Hard History - December 08, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsEveryone thinks they know the story, but the real history of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott is even better. This episode details the events that set the stage for Ms. Parks’ civil disobedience. You’ll meet the leaders and organizations who transformed a moment of activism into a 13-mo...
Connecting Slavery with the Civil Rights Movement
Teaching Hard History - November 24, 2020 12:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsTo fully understand the United States today, we have to comprehend the central role that slavery played in our nation’s past. That legacy is also the foundation for understanding the civil rights movement and its place within the history of the Black freedom struggle. This episode is a special l...
Teaching the Movement’s Most Iconic Figure – w/ Charles McKinney
Teaching Hard History - November 10, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsYou cannot teach the civil rights movement without talking about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But it’s critical that students deconstruct the mythology surrounding the movement’s most iconic figure to learn about the man, not just the hero. The real Dr. King held beliefs that evolved over time. A ...
The Jim Crow North – w/ Patrick D. Jones
Teaching Hard History - October 27, 2020 11:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsThe Civil Rights Movement was never strictly a Southern phenomenon. To better understand the Jim Crow North, we explore discrimination and Black protest in places like Milwaukee, Omaha, Cleveland and New York. To examine the Black Freedom Movement beyond the South, we examine the Black-led fight...
Nonviolence and Self-Defense – w/ Wesley Hogan, Christopher Strain and Akinyele Umoja
Teaching Hard History - October 13, 2020 19:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsArmed resistance and nonviolent direct action co-existed throughout the civil rights era. In this episode, three historians confront some comfortable assumptions about nonviolence and self-defense. Wesley Hogan examines the evolution, value and limitations of nonviolence in the movement. Christ...
New Film: The Forgotten Slavery of Our Ancestors – w/ Alice Qannik Glenn
Teaching Hard History - October 07, 2020 19:20 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsAlice Qannik Glenn is the host of Coffee and Quaq and assistant producer of The Forgotten Slavery of our Ancestors. This short, classroom-ready film offers an introduction to the history of Indigenous enslavement on land that is currently the United States. This new resource from Teaching Tolera...
Jim Crow, Lynching and White Supremacy – w/ Stephen A. Berrey, Hannah Ayers, Lance Warren and Ahmariah Jackson
Teaching Hard History - September 29, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsJim Crow was more than signs and separation. It was a system of terror and violence created to control the labor and regulate the behavior of Black people. In this episode, historian Stephen Berrey unpacks the mechanics of racial oppression, the actions white people took—in and beyond the South—...
A Playlist for the Movement – w/ Charles L. Hughes
Teaching Hard History - September 08, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsMusic chronicles the history of the civil rights struggle: The events, tactics and emotions of the movement are documented in songs of the era. From The Freedom Singers to Sam Cooke, historian Charles L. Hughes explains how your students can use music for both historical insight and evidence in ...
Beyond the "Master Narrative" – w/ Nishani Frazier and Adam Sanchez
Teaching Hard History - August 25, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsStudents don’t enter our classrooms as blank slates. When it comes to the civil rights movement, we often have to help our students unlearn what they think they know while we’re teaching them what actually happened. The people were more complex, the strategies more complicated and the stakes mor...
Reframing the Movement – w/ Nishani Frazier and Adam Sanchez
Teaching Hard History - August 11, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsTeaching the civil rights movement accurately and effectively requires deconstructing the myths and misconceptions about the civil rights movement. Most people are familiar with a very specific version of the Civil Rights Movement that exaggerates Government support and denies the existence and ...
Wrap Up: Teaching the Connections – w/ Bethany Jay
Teaching Hard History - June 09, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsThe systems that enabled and perpetuated African and Indigenous enslavement in what is now the U.S. have much in common, and their histories tell us a great deal about the present. Professors Bethany Jay and Steven Oliver join us to talk about connections between the first two seasons and how to...
Hard History in Hard Times – Talking With Teachers
Teaching Hard History - May 08, 2020 19:08 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsIn this special call-in episode, listeners share their stories and questions from throughout season 2—including teaching remotely, working with families and stakeholders, and incorporating social justice into subjects like math and science. As educators, we’re strongest when we support each othe...
Call Us! (by Sunday, April 19)
Teaching Hard History - April 13, 2020 21:41 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsIt’s time for our first call-in show! We know things are chaotic for you and every other educator right now. We feel it too, so this seems like the perfect time to talk. Pick up the phone and dial 888-59-STORY (888-597-8679). Our lines are open until Sunday night, April 19. Teaching hard history...
Call Us! (by Sunday, April 19)
Teaching Hard History - April 13, 2020 21:41 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsIt’s time for our first call-in show! We know things are chaotic for you and every other educator right now. We feel it too, so this seems like the perfect time to talk. Pick up the phone and dial 888-59-STORY (888-597-8679). Our lines are open until Sunday night, April 19. Teaching hard history...
Inseparable Separations: Slavery and Indian Removal
Teaching Hard History - March 27, 2020 20:12 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsIndian Removal was a brutal and complicated effort that textbooks often simplify. It is also inseparably related to slavery. Enslavers seeking profit drove demand for Indigenous lands, displacing hundreds of thousands of Indigenous people. Some of these Indigenous people participated in chattel ...
Slave Codes, Liberty Suits and the Charter Generation – w/ Margaret Newell
Teaching Hard History - March 06, 2020 15:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsThe Americas were built on the lands, labor and lives of Indigenous peoples. Despite being erased from history textbooks after the so-called first Thanksgiving, Indigenous peoples did not disappear. Colonial settlers relied on the cooperation, exploitation and forced labor of their Native neighb...
Using the WPA Slave Narratives – w/ Cynthia Lynn Lyerly
Teaching Hard History - February 14, 2020 18:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsFrom 1936 to 1938, the Federal Writers’ Project collected stories from people who had been enslaved. The WPA Slave Narrative Collection at the Library of Congress is a valuable resource; these oral histories are also problematic. Interpreting these narratives within literary and historical conte...
Groundwork for Teaching Indigenous Enslavement – w/ the Turtle Island Social Studies Collective
Teaching Hard History - February 08, 2020 01:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsTo better understand the United States’ past and present, we need to better understand Indigenous identities—and our classrooms play a huge role. This starts with examining what’s missing from our social studies, history, civics and government curricula. Throughout this episode, we reference the...
Mid-season Recap: Key Lessons on Indigenous Enslavement
Teaching Hard History - January 24, 2020 13:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsEducators can no longer ignore our country’s history of Indigenous enslavement. Our students need a fuller understanding of the pivotal history of slavery to comprehend the present and develop a vision for our nation’s future. In this mid-season recap, we highlight key lessons about this consequ...
Silver, Resistance and the Evolution of Slavery in the West – w/ Andrés Reséndez
Teaching Hard History - December 20, 2019 15:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsThroughout the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, the forced labor and bondage of Indigenous peoples was integral to the economic and political history of what became the Southwestern United States. Historian and author Andrés Reséndez outlines the significance of silver mining, Indigenous enslaveme...
The Other Slavery – w/ Andrés Reséndez
Teaching Hard History - December 06, 2019 21:36 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsA hundred years before the first ship carrying enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia, Europeans introduced the commercial practice of enslavement in “The New World.” And for the next 400 years, millions of Indigenous people throughout the Americas were enslaved through several forms of forced la...
Coming Soon: Conversations with Andrés Reséndez
Teaching Hard History - November 25, 2019 21:30 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsAndrés Reséndez is the author of The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. His work has changed conventional wisdom about the institution of slavery in the Atlantic World. Over the next two episodes, host Hasan Kwame Jeffries and Reséndez will discuss key turning p...
Teaching Slavery through Children's Literature, Part 2 – w/ Debbie Reese
Teaching Hard History - November 08, 2019 12:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsEach autumn, Thanksgiving brings a disturbing amount of inaccurate information and troubling myths into classrooms across the United States. Most students don’t learn much about the history of Native nations—and even less about Indigenous peoples today. Dr. Debbie Reese explains what to look for...
Teaching Slavery through Children's Literature, Part 1 – w/ Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
Teaching Hard History - October 25, 2019 13:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsChildren’s books are often the primary way young students are exposed to the history of American slavery. But many books about slavery sugarcoat oppression. Professor Ebony Elizabeth Thomas examines what we should consider when it comes to how children’s books portray African Americans and Indi...
In the Elementary Classroom – w/ Kate Shuster, Marian Dingle, Bria Wright, Marvin Reed and Alice Mitchell
Teaching Hard History - October 04, 2019 17:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsFor elementary teachers approaching the topic of slavery, it can be tempting to focus only on heroes and avoid explaining oppression. But teachers’ omissions speak as loudly as what they choose to include. And what children learn in the early grades has broad consequences for the rest of their e...
Indigenous Enslavement: Part 2 – w/ Christina Snyder
Teaching Hard History - September 20, 2019 17:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsUnderstanding Indigenous enslavement expands our conception of slavery in what is now the United States. It spread across the entire continent and affected millions of people of different backgrounds. If we define slavery too narrowly, we can fail to see its persistence over time and even its mo...
Indigenous Enslavement: Part 1 – w/ Christina Snyder
Teaching Hard History - September 06, 2019 12:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 258 ratingsMillions of Indigenous people lived in North America before European colonial powers invaded. Along with an insatiable desire for free labor, Europeans brought systems of slavery that significantly differed from the historical practices of enslavement among Native nations. Historian Christina Sn...
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