Keeping the Struggle Alive Studying Desegregation in Our Town A Guide to Doing Oral History

When students in a New Jersey public middle school decided to learn about their community's history of desegregation through a unique language arts and social studies project, no one imagined how powerful the experience would be for everyone involved. In addition to digging up newspaper articles and historical documents, the students conducted lively interviews with townspeople who participated in the struggle to desegregate schools up North. They soon learned how everyday people became activists, how a bus could symbolize political struggle, and how the fight for full integration is never over. This hands-on volume offers a curriculum guide for teaching oral history that can be adopted to any classroom or community, and shows teachers how to perform social action projects that involve youth in the complex issues concerning race relations and integration.Anand, Bernadette is the author of 'Keeping the Struggle Alive Studying Desegregation in Our Town A Guide to Doing Oral History', published 2002 under ISBN 9780807741450 and ISBN 0807741450.