June 16-June 23, 2024

Content Specialist: Dr. Jay H. Buckley, Assistant Professor, BYU

Pedagogy Specialist: Dr. Hadyn Call

Driven 2 Teach will sponsor a Field Study on the Civil Rights Movement focusing on the story from Slavery to the Civil Rights Movement. The Field Study will take place in South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. Field Study participants will visit locations significant in the evolution and practice of American Slavery, the Civil War, and the Civil Right Movement, including museums created to commemorate important events and individuals. They will hear from individuals who participated in the Civil Rights Movement. This course is designed for teachers of later United States History and is intended for high school teachers and 5th grade elementary teachers who include the Civil Rights Movement in their social studies curriculum. Teachers will study significant issues, events, leaders, resistance, and successes of the Civil Rights Movement. The tour will start in Charleston, South Carolina, where participants will study the beginning of the slave trade, the institution of slavery and the Civil War. They will then visit Atlanta, Georgia, where participants will study the history of African Americans and the role of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the Martin Luther King National Museum. Then, it is off to Tuskegee, Alabama, where participants will visit the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site to consider these pioneers of the Civil Rights Movement and will spend time in the George Washington Carver Museum. Participants will then travel to Selma, Birmingham, and Montgomery, Alabama to study at the Civil Rights Institute, the Rosa Parks Museum, and the 16th Street Baptist Church. Participants will cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge with one of the original marchers.