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ROBBINSDALE AREA SCHOOLS KENNETH TURNER

CIVIL RIGHTS RESEARCH TOUR 2014

Table of contents

Day 1: Louisville, Kentucky Day 2: Memphis, Tennessee Day 3: Selma, Alabama Day 4: Montgomery, Alabama Day 5: Tuskegee, Alabama Day 6: Birmingham, Alabama Day 7: Jackson, Mississippi Extras: Statue of Liberty Cointelpro

Learning objectives

• To learn about the Robbinsdale Area Schools 2013-2014 Kenneth Turner Civil Rights Research Tour students experience.

• To learn about what “we” as students would like to learn about in the everyday classroom experience.

• To learn about ways to collaborate with stakeholders to create an Ethnic Studies district –wide and the expansion of the Civil Rights Research Tour to the Chicano/a and American Indian Civil Rights Research Tour.

• To get your excitement high for the upcoming movie premiere of the Freedumb.

Day 1: Louisville, Kentucky

Muhammad Ali Center

Cont’d Day 1

Muhammad Ali Center

Day 2: Memphis, Tennessee

Day 3: Selma, Alabama

Day 4: Montgomery, Alabama

Day 5: Tuskegee, Alabama

Day 6: Birmingham, Alabama

Day 7: Jackson, Mississippi

Other facts statue of liberty

Other facts COINTELPRO

https://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/COINTELPRO/COINTELPRO-FBI.docs.html

Cointelpro: (an acronym for COunter INTELligence PROgram)

was a series of covert, and at times illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveying, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.

Sankofa

Sankofa is an Akan word that means, "We

must go back and reclaim our past so we can move forward; so we understand why

and how we came to be who we are today."