This is a 6-week, asynchronous, flexibly paced course within the Online Enrichment Program. Students should expect 2-5 hours of course work per week. Session dates: January 31 - March 13, 2024.
The history books have told us of Rosa Parks’s courageous refusal to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, but did you know she wasn’t the first civil rights activist to do so? Indeed, months before Parks’s protest, it was 15-year-old Claudette Colvin who was the first Black person to refuse to give up her seat on the bus, yet few people know her name. Who and what else have been left out of modern history books? Using primary and secondary sources, this course will explore recent historical events and the people who made contributions to these significant moments, but who have been overlooked, unacknowledged, or misunderstood.
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QUALIFYING SUBJECT AREA: Verbal