Making A Movement: Arts and the First Amendment Summer Learning Program
Making Making a Movement: Arts and the First Amendment is a program for middle school students that launched the summer of 2017. It was developed by Maya Cunningham for Ethnomusicology In Action at District of Columbia Public Schools 2017 Summer Learning Program. For five weeks in the summer, students learned how to make a social justice movement by closely studying six that have defined and changed US History. The first learned about the formation of the United States, the writing of the US constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the First Amendment freedoms. They moved on to study six different social justice movements including
This summer, participating students formed a youth activist group called The Freedom Seven, inspired by the Little Rock Nine, in order to present their Making a Movement Podcast Series.
Click here to listen to the Freedom Seven’s Making a Movement Podcast Series.
- African – American Civil Rights Movement
- Black Power Movement
- Native American Power Movement
- Standing Rock Movement
- Immigrants’ Rights Movement and
- The Black Lives Matter Movement
This summer, participating students formed a youth activist group called The Freedom Seven, inspired by the Little Rock Nine, in order to present their Making a Movement Podcast Series.
Click here to listen to the Freedom Seven’s Making a Movement Podcast Series.
