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Teaching Hidden Histories Workshop 5
May 7, 2022 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 pm
Join us on May 7 as we continue to explore “The Struggle for Liberty, Equality, and Property: Examining Resistance to Exclusionary Policies Against Black People in Essex County”.
The history of Black people’s experiences in Essex County, MA, including institutional integration, community activism, and hard-fought access to fundamental rights, offers a rich set of stories for our students to explore. In this workshop, we examine how these experiences exemplify a larger history of structural policies of exclusion and prejudice, but also perseverance and change.
Join us as we work to answer many questions about this history and its relevance today, including:
- What are some exemplary stories of Black people’s experiences in our region that highlight larger themes of exclusion and the fight for access?
- How can primary sources from the region’s past as well as contemporary voices in the local Black community inform our understanding of how to approach this topic with our students?
Contributors:
Dr. Kabria Baumgartner, Dean’s Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies and
Associate Director of Public History, Northeastern University; principal investigator, African Americans in Essex County, Massachusetts: An Annotated Guide ; author of In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America
Dr. Kerri Greenidge, Mellon Assistant Professor, Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora, Tufts University; author of Black Radical, The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter.
Doneeca Thurston, Director, Lynn Museum and Lynn Arts
Edward Carson, Dean of Multicultural Education and member of the History Department
The Governor’s Academy, Byfield, Massachusetts
More information at: https://usingessexhistory.org/teachinghiddenhistories
