June 14, 2007

WHAT:

Space is still available for the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Education’s eighth annual “Birmingham Civil Rights Movement” summer course for teachers and college students. Through class discussions led by former civil rights activists, lectures by scholars and field trips to historic sites around the Southeast, the class will give participants insight into the civil rights movement and its lasting impact on contemporary issues.

This summer, the class field trips will include tours of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham and Tuskegee University along with the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma and the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery.

WHEN:

The three-week course will run 9 a.m.-3 p.m., July 9-13, July 16-20 and July 23-25.

WHERE:

Lectures will be held in the UAB Campbell Hall, Room 205, 1300 University Blvd.

WHO:

The course is sponsored by the UAB School of Education with the support of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham City Schools and the historic Titusville community.

The UAB School of Education’s Birmingham Civil Rights Movement summer course began as an extension of the University of Liverpool’s “Black Roots” program established in 1998 in England. That course examined Liverpool’s history from the black perspective of the transatlantic slave trade.

HOW:

Students can earn up to six credits in educational foundations or elementary or secondary curriculum instruction. Teachers can earn three credit hours for professional development. For more details on the course, tuition and fees, call Virginia Volker at 205-592-7966 or UAB Associate Professor Lois Christensen at 205-934-8362.