The second edition of Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching is released

Teaching for Change is pleased to announce the release this month of the second edition of Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching. The Civil Rights Movement is one of the most commonly taught stories about the fight for democracy and equal rights. However, the powerful stories of everyday people organizing and working together for social change are lost in the focus on a few major heroes and dates.

Our book and companion website offer free lessons and other resources to teach a people’s history of the Civil Rights Movement.

As co-editor Jenice L. View says in the book’s introduction:

We have published this new print and online edition to challenge the typical story of the Civil Rights Movement, which, in the name of honoring Black history, is actually a disempowering narrative. By moving beyond “heroes and holidays,” we uncover and humanize the stories of all the many ordinary people who performed heroic acts in the name of social justice, and at the local level as well as nationally.
In doing so, readers are able to learn useful lessons about their roles in this world, to develop strategies to address pressing problems in their lives and community, and to see themselves as agents of change.

In honor of our 35th anniversary, we offer you a pre-order discount of $7 with the code TFC35. The books will ship by mid-October.Pre-Order Book

This book comes at a time when we need young people to learn from history how to defend voting rights and to organize to address a myriad of burning issues, including climate justice, mass incarceration, war, the freedom to learn, and much more.