UAB Class Lets Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Stories, July 12-30

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Education will host its fifth annual “Civil Rights Movement” summer course for college students and teachers this month.

Posted on July 7, 2004 at 12:27 p.m.

     

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The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Education will host its fifth annual “Civil Rights Movement” summer course for college students and teachers this month. Through 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’s lasting affect on public education in the South.

     

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Class times will be 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., July 12-16, July 19-24 and July 26-30.

     

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UAB School of Education
Room 145
901 13th Street South
Birmingham, AL

     

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Speakers will include civil rights leader the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who will talk about his experiences during the movement. That lecture will begin at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 21, at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, 520 16th Street North. Other scheduled speakers will include Townsend Davis, author of the book “Weary Feet, Rested Souls,” U.S. Rep. Artur Davis, (D-Birmingham), Birmingham attorney Lanny Vines and Michael Froning, Ed.D., dean of the UAB School of Education. In addition, four people who were active in the civil rights movement as children will speak at 9 a.m. Tuesday, July 27, in the School of Education, Room 145, 901 13th Street South.

Participants also will visit historic sites, including the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery and the King Center in Atlanta on July 15-16, 21, 22-24 and 29.

     

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The Lanny S. Vines Foundation has provided a scholarship for the class in honor of Congressman Artur Davis. The scholarship covers the cost of the course plus expenses. Space is still available. Students can earn up to six credits in history, African-American studies, educational foundations, or elementary and secondary curriculum instruction. For more details, contact Virginia Volker at (205) 592-7966, or Lois Christensen, Ph.D., at (205) 934-8362.

     

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The Civil Rights Movement course is offered through a partnership, established in 1998, between UAB and the University of Liverpool in England. The University of Liverpool has a corresponding study abroad program called “Liverpool’s Black Roots” that examines the city’s link to the transatlantic slave trade.