Challenging the System to Work

The Philadelphia Writing Project (PhilWP) in collaboration with the African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) and the Social Studies Team of the School District of Philadelphia’s Office of Curriculum and Instruction offers this month's National Endowment of Humanities panel. Participants will learn about the Colored Conventions, where, over the course of seven decades, tens of thousands of Black men and women from different walks of life traveled to attend meetings publicly advertised as “Colored Conventions” to offer opportunities for free-born and formerly enslaved African Americans to organize and strategize for racial justice.

Three District teachers, who are part of the Teaching the Colored Conventions Project, will share curricula and projects designed for classrooms.

Participants will learn from teachers in workshop settings and engage in discussion about ways to use these ideas in K-12 classrooms. There will also be an opportunity to explore the African American Museum exhibits.

The event is free to teachers and museum educators.