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Teaching the Civil Rights Movement with the Georgia Historical Marker Program

Album Description

The Georgia Historical Society's Teaching the Civil Rights Movement with the Georgia Historical Marker Program teacher training course was held January through March of 2022. Open to educators across Georgia, this training opportunity was made possible by the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Eastern Region Program coordinated by Waynesburg University.

Throughout the Teaching the Civil Rights Movement with the Georgia Historical Marker Program teacher training course, participants constructed Focused Inquiries based on the Inquiry Design Model. Each inquiry is a standards-based (GSE) investigation of the struggle for civil and human rights in Georgia.

Featuring historical markers from the Georgia Historical Marker Program’s Georgia Civil Rights Trail and primary sources from GHS and the Library of Congress, these inquiries enhance student understanding of an era in which religion, education, politics, and free enterprise intersected to end Jim Crow and secure civil rights for African Americans.

Use these classroom-ready investigations to explore local, state, and national stories from Reconstruction through the late twentieth century in elementary and middle school classrooms.

Focused Inquiry is an adaptation of the Inquiry Design Model from C3 Teachers. The Inquiry Design Model (IDM) is a distinctive approach to creating curriculum and instructional materials that honors teachers’ knowledge and expertise, avoids overprescription, and focuses on the main elements of the instructional design process as envisioned in the Inquiry Arc of the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards (2013). (C3teachers.org).

Albany Movement Georgia Historical Marker (Dougherty County)

Teaching Notes

Compelling Question: In what ways did SNCC/Albany State College students contribute to and influence the Albany Movement? 

By Jennifer Egas, Georgia Virtual Academy 

Alonzo Herndon Georgia Historical Marker (Fulton County)

Teaching Notes

Compelling Question: Why would Alonzo Herndon create a segregated barbershop that excludes African Americans?

Atlanta Student Movement Georgia Historical Marker (Fulton County)

Teaching Notes

Compelling Question: What were the goals, strategies, and ultimate impacts of the Atlanta Student Movement?

Primus King and the Civil Rights Movement Georgia Historical Marker Program (Muscogee County)

Teaching Notes

Compelling Question: Why were African Americans or Blacks like Primus King denied the right to vote in the Georgia Democratic Party primary after the passage of the 15th and 19th Amendments?

Slave Cabins Georgia Historical Marker (Glynn County)

Teaching Notes

Compelling Question: Who's voice is missing? 

Leesburg Stockade Georgia Historical Marker Program (Mass Incarceration) (Lee County)

Teaching Notes

Compelling Question: Is it okay for children to go to jail?

Leesburg Stockade Georgia Historical Marker Program (The Stolen Girls) (Lee County)

Teaching Notes

Compelling Question: Did teenage voices make a difference in the Georgia Civil Rights Movement?

Teaching the Civil Rights Movement with the Georgia Historical Marker Program

Teaching Notes