# @edutopia on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CSXDRnyjkeg
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/20303730-edutopia-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-08-09T16:21:45.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Edutopia (@edutopia) — https://gondola.cc/edutopia

## Caption

The civil rights movement is often taught through a narrow lens, limited to well-known figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, and watershed moments like the Montgomery bus boycott. But educators across America say this limited version of civil rights history does students a disservice and are modifying their curriculum to teach “a more accurate history that commonly goes untold,” writes journalist Melinda D. Anderson.⁣
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Through interviews with teachers, Anderson gleaned some strategies for improving history lessons on the period:⁣
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📌 Discuss lesser-known figures and institutions:  Examine the important roles of grassroots activists often missing from historical narratives, like Fannie Lou Hamer or Gloria Richardson, suggests Aaron Broudo, a high school history teacher. Teach students about the little-known roles of Black churches, youth, schools, families, and grassroots organizations that were integral to pushing for change. ⁣
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📌 Debunk myths: Many schools rely heavily on textbooks with a “cursory and sanitized” version of civil rights education that limits students’ understanding of the period, says civil rights scholar Charles M. Payne. Consider introducing primary documents to inject more authentic information—and new fresh perspectives. Or, share archival video footage and recorded interviews from civil rights organizers like Ella Baker to help correct common misperceptions. ⁣
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📌 Connect past to present: Teach kids to connect the social and political movements during this period to our country’s ongoing struggles with race and equity. In Jessica Dickens’ 10th grade history class, for example, students act out the roles of important activists in the freedom struggle. “I teach my students that the civil rights movement is ongoing. You can’t look back and say, ‘This was when Black people didn’t have rights. This was when Jim Crow existed.’ They know a lot about Ferguson…. We’re still fighting for civil rights,” says Henry.⁣
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