Beyond the "Master Narrative" – w/ Nishani Frazier and Adam Sanchez

Teaching Hard History

Students don’t enter our classrooms as blank slates. When it comes to the civil rights movement, we often have to help our students unlearn what they think they know while we’re teaching them what actually happened. The people were more complex, the strategies more complicated and the stakes more dangerous than we like to remember. In this episode, historian Nishani Frazier and social studies teacher Adam Sanchez demonstrate the value of teaching the movement from the grassroots up.

Check out Nishani's Harambee City website and Adam's “Teaching SNCC" classroom activities.

You can find more useful resources like those – along with an enhanced transcript – on our website.

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