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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
  • African – American Civil Rights Movement
  • Black Power Movement
  • Native American Power Movement
  • Standing Rock Movement
  • Immigrants’ Rights Movement and
  • The Black Lives Matter Movement
In this program, students learn the history and issues of each movement by engaging in readings, documentary films, primary source documents and critical analysis. They also learned the music and arts traditions that drove each movement forward. Students take action on an issue that they believe in by engaging in a project related to social media activism. In the summer of 2017, students wrote and produced a podcast series. During the next program cycle, students will continue to  creating social media campaigns and perform songs from each movement in the Making a Movement Freedom Choir. Students will continue in the program throughout the school year in an internship program through which they learn to lead internet activism and community engagement projects.
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.

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  • Home
  • About
    • Videos
    • About Maya Cunningham - Director
    • About Themba Arts & Culture
  • Blog
  • The Grandmother Project
  • Curriculum Institute
    • Rationale
    • Our Strategy
    • Scholarly Advisory Panel
  • Public Scholarship
  • Culturally Responsive Pedagogy Workshops
  • Our Curricula
    • Music of the Mali Empire
    • Southern Roots: The Delta Blues and the Songs of Gee's Bend
    • Gullah Voices
    • Music of Ghana: Gateway to West Africa
    • Music of Botswana: Gateway to Southern Africa
    • Carnival Celebrations: Exploring the African Diaspora
    • Follow the Drinking Gourd Music Map Murals
    • Jazz Cities
    • Samba, Soul and Civil Rights
    • Songs of the Silk Road
  • Ghana Summer 2022 Educators Fellowship
    • Ghana Homeland Adventure
    • Travel Logistics for Ghana
  • Radio
  • Contact