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One World Archives has teamed with the Coalition to Remember the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot in order to engage Atlanta in a community-wide civics lesson. The 1906 Atlanta Race Riot is the civic lesson and it teaches us about racism, fear, jealousy, and the denial of democratic rights to American citizens. In the broadest sense, our civic lesson involves how to learn from both the events of the past that support democracy as well as how to learn from historical events that do not support democracy.
This is a different kind of civic lesson because there are no tests, no grades, and the only evaluation is a self-evaluation. Here is how it works.
- From this page, you can complete the questionnaire and thereby participate in building a community portrait on issues of how racism, fear, and jealousy work to deny people basic human, civil, and democratic rights.
- Anonymous responses will be posted on both the Coalition and the OWA web sites.
- The responses to the questionnaire will be a basis for building Online Learning Communities. Click HERE if you would like to learn more about Learning Communities
Many of the questions have multiple answers that you might agree with. In those instances where you are limited to a single response, our intention is to spur reflection. We see reflection as essential to building online learning communities so that our Community Civics Lesson can be ongoing.
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WALKING TOURS: Because of the success of the January walking tour, in which over 100 people took part, the Coalition's Public Education committee has decided to sponsor a walking tour of downtown Riot-related sites at 1:00 on the second Sunday of every month. The next tour will take place at 1:00, Sunday, February 12th, and will last approximately one hour. The tour will gather at Five Points, by the gazebo in Woodruff Park. For more information, contact Cliff Kuhn at publiceducation@1906atlantarace riot.org or 404-463-9204.
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