Deborah Menkart

@dmenkart

Deborah Menkart is co-director of the Zinn Education Project, the executive director of Teaching for Change, and co-editor of Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching (Teaching for Change).

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Sharecroppers Challenge U.S. Apartheid: The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

Resource Types: Teaching Activities (Free)

Teaching Activity. By Julian Hipkins III, Deborah Menkart, Sara Evers, and Jenice View.
Role play on the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) that introduces students to a vital example of small “d” democracy in action. For grades 7+.

Beyond Heroes and Holidays: A Practical Guide to K-12 Anti-Racist, Multicultural Education, and Staff Development

Resource Types: Teaching Guides

Page Length: 436

Teaching Guide. Edited by Enid Lee, Deborah Menkart and Margo Okazawa-Rey. 2006. 436 pages.
Guide for teachers, administrators, and parents shows how to teach from a multicultural perspective that goes beyond the superficial "heroes and holidays" approach.

Putting the Movement Back into Civil Rights Teaching

Resource Types: Teaching Guides

Page Length: 576

Teaching Guide and Website. Edited by Deborah Menkart, Alana D. Murray, and Jenice L. View. 2004.
Provides lessons and articles for K-12 educators on how to go beyond a heroes approach to the Civil Rights Movement, with a focus on education, economics, labor, youth, women, and culture.

La Guerra con Mexico

Reclaiming Hidden History: Students Create a Slavery Walking Tour in Manhattan

Reading Between the Lines: An Art Contest Helps Students Imagine the Lives of Runaway Slaves

Pump Up the Blowouts: Reflections on the 40th Anniversary of the Chicano/a School Blowouts

Rethinking the U.S. Constitutional Convention: A Role Play

‘We Had Set Ourselves Free’: Lessons on the Civil Rights Movement