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The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University
and the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American
History are pleased to announce the launch of The Object of
History.
The Object of History Web site features six
artifacts from the Museum’s collections, related high school
curriculum materials, and opportunities for students to participate
in live online forums with Smithsonian curators.
The first
featured object is the Greensboro lunch counter. On February
1, 1960, four African-American students from North Carolina
Agricultural and Technical College walked into a Greensboro F.W.
Woolworth and sat down at the white-only lunch counter, refusing to
leave until they were served. In the coming days they were joined by
other students in their protest, and on July 25, 1960, Woolworth's
integrated the lunch counter. African Americans had endured unequal
treatment and access to public accommodations since just after
Reconstruction, and the sit-ins sparked the widespread student
activism that was at the heart of the Civil Rights
movement.
The lunch counter module includes the following
resources.
Materials
for Students:
- guide to doing history with objects
- two minute introductory movie
- virtual lunch counter to examine
- curator interview clips
- large collection of associated primary sources to explore
- brief and extended thematic tours
- links to related web resources
- opportunities to create virtual exhibits
- opportunity to submit questions for curators and historians to
answer during live audiocasts
Additional
Materials for Teachers:
- introductory material on how to use this site in the
classroom
- activity designed to teach about the sit-in and its role in
the Civil Rights movement
- brief overview of the post Civil Rights Movement in
America
Sign up
to submit questions about the Greensboro lunch counter for curators
and historians to answer during the live audiocasts in the month of
March.
Audiocast Schedule:
- March 2, 2007 9:10-10:00 am Eastern Time
- March 9, 2007 10:10-11:00 am Eastern Time
- March 16, 2007 1:10-2:00 pm Eastern Time
- March 23, 2007 2:10-3:00 pm Eastern Time
Audiocasts
will be archived on the Web site.
Comments or
Questions? Contact us: teachers@objectofhistory.org
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