Are you a teacher who wants to help your students become aware of this part of our history? Below are some suggestions of ways to do that. If you have stories or suggestions, please drop us a line.
Plan a Field Trip.
A field trip to the Equal Justice Initiative’s National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum is a very powerful educational experience. If you and your students are interested in this, The Foundation for Liberty and Justice will reimburse schools for the costs of field trips to Montgomery.
You can simply fill out a form here.
“I want American history taught. Unless I'm in that book, you're not in it either. History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.”
— James Baldwin