Growing up I can not say I remember my school ever doing anything special for Black History portions of our courses, and I have to say the same for… no wait our cafeteria served fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, and greens in honor of Black History Month.
When I read a Tallahassee school was working on improving its Black History curriculum, I crossed my fingers that they weren’t adding watermelon to their school lunches.
While the Leon county school officials were coming up with a new curricula, a civil rights group released suggestions for teaching about the civil rights movement and warned against treating the two subject matters as one. School officials to an extra step to add civil rights history from the Tallahassee area to the history curriculum.
There was a bus boycott and a lunch sit in. Florida A&M was the first University to participate in the fight for equal rights. Trips to these cites are part of their plans to bring Black History closer to students. It is one thing to talk about it, but students will forever remember trips to these historical sites as opposed to reading about it in class. It may stick for the history junkies, but this is an awesome way to make history a real thing for students of all races.
A civil rights group released suggestions for teaching about the civil rights movement and warned against treating the two subject matters as one.
We salute schools that are making strides towards making our history, part of the history our students learn in the classroom.
