Race and Membership: From Segregation to Civil Rights and Beyond

Path Creator: Huelett

Facing History and Ourselves

 

Race and Membership: From Segregation to Civil Rights and Beyond 

Facilitators: Tanya Huelett and Kevin Feinberg

Location: Friends Seminary

 July 11 – July 15, 2011

 

Essential Questions:

 1) Creating a “We” and a “They”

How did ideas about race and racism become part of the American social and political fabric?  How did ideas about racial difference and racial hierarchies influence social attitudes and public policies during the Jim Crow era and beyond?

2) Democracy as a work in progress: The Civil Rights Movement (A Case Study)

How did Americans resist racist social attitudes and public policies during the Civil Rights Movement?

3) Legacies

How do notions of “We” and “They” still persist in the social attitudes and public policies of Americans? How do the ideas and efforts of the people involved in the Civil Rights movement inform and inspire upstanders today?