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SUMMARY:One Hundred Years of High School Student Organizing
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, September 28\, Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian will be in conversation with historians Aaron G. Fountain Jr. and Jon N. Hale about student organizing and state repression. Fountain is the author of High School Students Unite!: Teen Activism\, Education Reform\, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America and Hale is the author of A New Kind of Youth: Historically Black High Schools and Southern Student Activism\, 1920–1975. \nAaron G. Fountain Jr. is a historian and public scholar. His book High School Students Unite!was a finalist for the 2025 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. His articles have been published in Time\, Smithsonian Magazine\, Al Jazeera\, The Hill\, and more. He has begun work on his second book\, which is a cultural and political history of teenagers and the Vietnam War in North America\, Australia\, and New Zealand. \nJon N. Hale is professor and associate head of education policy\, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition to A New Kind of Youth\, Hale is also the author of The Choice We Face: How Segregation\, Race\, and Power Have Shaped America’s Most Controversial Education Reform Movement and The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement\, and co-editor of Schooling the Movement: The Activism of Southern Black Educators from Reconstruction Through the Civil Rights Eraand To Write in the Light of Freedom: The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools. \nASL interpretation provided. \nProfessional development credit certificate provided upon request for attendees. \nThese online classes with people’s historians are held at least once a month (generally on Mondays) at 4:00 pm PT / 7:00 pm ET for 75 minutes. In each session\, the historian is interviewed by a teacher and breakout rooms allow participants to meet each other in small groups\, discuss the content\, and share teaching ideas. We designed the sessions for teachers and other school staff. Parents\, students\, and others are also welcome to participate.
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SUMMARY:Robeson\, Robinson\, and Resistance: Athletes\, Artists\, and the Struggle for Liberation
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, October 26\, Rethinking Schools editor Jesse Hagopian will be in conversation with author Howard Bryant about his book Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America\, which tells the the untold story of sports and fame\, Black life in the United States\, and the promise of integration during the Cold War. \nHoward Bryant is the author of 11 books\, an esteemed journalist\, and an award-winning producer. Besides Kings and Pawns\, his books include Sisters and Champions: The True Story of Venus and Serena Williams\, Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original\, Full Dissidence: Notes From an Uneven Playing Field\, The Heritage: Black Athletes\, A Divided America and the Politics of Patriotism\, The Last Hero: A Life of Henry Aaron\, Juicing the Game: Drugs\, Power\, and the Fight for the Soul of Major League Baseball\, and more. \nASL interpretation provided. \nProfessional development credit certificate provided upon request for attendees. \nThese online classes with people’s historians are held at least once a month (generally on Mondays) at 4:00 pm PT / 7:00 pm ET for 75 minutes. In each session\, the historian is interviewed by a teacher and breakout rooms allow participants to meet each other in small groups\, discuss the content\, and share teaching ideas. We designed the sessions for teachers and other school staff. Parents\, students\, and others are also welcome to participate.
URL:https://rethinkingschools.org/event/robeson-robinson-and-resistance-athletes-artists-and-the-struggle-for-liberation/
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