Reading
Read all of: Zimmerman Black Activism.pdf
. This article speaks to controversies over U.S. history curricula in the mid-twentieth-century. Again, part of the point of this piece for our class is to see similarities and differences between these past controversies and those in the present surrounding the 1619 project.
Upload your summary of “Black Activism, White Resistance, and Multiculturalism” here by noon (lunch time). Only upload .doc or .docx format. Pay Attention: The directions for this assignment are new: 1) Write between 150 and 200 words (feel free to write more than 200, if you are feeling inspired); 2) be comprehensive–this is a summary of the “whole” article; 3) offer a title that brings out what you think the main point of the reading is; and 4) use your own words as much as possible. Also, 5) add another section where you write at least 50 words on the similarities you see between the controversy presented in a) “Struggles over Race and Sectionalism” and b) what we read about in Waxman’s “Past Tense”–in other words, what are the consistent bits of controversy across all three pieces, the first by Waxman and the two by Zimmerman?
Author Information
Johnathan Zimmerman
The following is drawn from: https://www.gse.upenn.edu/academics/faculty-directory/zimmerman (Links to an external site.).
Jonathan Zimmerman is one of the foremost education historians working today. His work examines how education practices and policies have developed over time, and the myths that often cloud our understanding of teaching and learning. He has a particular interest in how political and social movements come to shape education. A former Peace Corps volunteer and high school teacher, Zimmerman has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Chronicle of Higher Education, The New York Review of Books, and The Atlantic.