Young, Gifted and Black: Teaching Freedom Summer to K-5 Students – w/ Nicole Burrowes. La Tasha Levy and Liz Kleinrock

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Teaching civil rights history to young learners creates both opportunities and challenges. The 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project and the subsequent Freedom Schools offer important lessons for helping elementary students to understand the civil rights movement. In this episode, we explore community-based strategies and activities for bringing the black freedom struggle into your classroom.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our</span> <a href= "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2UdY83LolN5DB6YAo7MrC2" target= "_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">latest Spotify playlist</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">has even more Movement Music inspired by this episode. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And visit the</span> <a href= "https://www.tolerance.org/podcasts/teaching-hard-history/civil-rights-movement/young-gifted-and-black-teaching-freedom-summer-to-k-5-students" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">enhanced episode transcript</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">for additional classroom resources about Freedom Summer, Freedom Schools and teaching the civil rights movement to K-5 students.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">**New For Educators**</span> <a href="http://tolerance.org/podcastpd" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Get a professional development certificate</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">for listening to this episode—issued by Teaching Tolerance. Listen for the special code word, then visit tolerance.org/podcastpd.</span></p>