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On October 10, 2019, the Center for Innovation in Race, Teaching, and Curriculum at The University of Texas at Austin launched the Teaching Texas Slavery Project, a new website that serves as a resource for educators, scholars, and the general public. The project’s open-access website provides primary source documents on the history of slavery in Texas, and the project directors have held—and will continue to hold—workshops for teachers on how to use these resources in the classroom. More»

On March 31, 2020, Humanities Texas will hold a one-day teacher workshop in Dallas focusing on teaching F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby as well as Fitzgerald's short fiction and film adaptations of his work. Faculty presentations will examine Fitzgerald's narrative strategy in the novel, Fitzgerald in the broader context of the Jazz Age, understanding and teaching Fitzgerald's short fiction, and using film adaptations of Gatsby to engage students in the secondary classroom. More»

Born to a sharecropping family in northeast Texas in 1892, Bessie Coleman became the world's first female African American aviator. Her daredevil feats in air shows captivated crowds and earned her the nickname "Brave Bessie." An advocate for equal rights, Coleman encouraged young African Americans to fly, and she refused to participate in air shows that disallowed black attendance. In 1929, a flying school for African Americans was founded in her honor in Los Angeles, ensuring her legacy as a pioneer in aviation and civil rights. More»

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