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Saint Mary's faculty and staff enjoyed an inspirational and dynamic hour with Hasan Kwami Jeffries, associate professor of history at The Ohio State University, who spoke via Zoom this afternoon with Triangle independent school educators on Confronting Hard History in the Classroom: From Slavery, to Civil Rights, to Black Lives Matter.
Dr. Jeffries has been teaching courses on the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement for the past 18 years. He is the author of Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt, and the editor of Understanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement which won the 2020 James Harvey Robinson Prize from the American Historical Association for the most outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of history in any field for public or educational purposes. He also wrote and narrated the 10-episode Audible Original series Great Figures of the Civil Rights Movement, which was released in February 2020. In the classroom, he has won several major teaching awards, including The Ohio State University Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, the university’s highest award for teaching.
Dr. Jeffries has worked on several public history projects, including serving as the lead historian for the five-year, $25 million renovation of the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. He is also the host of the podcast Teaching Hard History: American Slavery, a production of the Teaching Tolerance division of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which just wrapped up its second season. He earned a BA in history from Morehouse College in 1994 and a Ph.D. in American history with a specialization in African American history from Duke University in 2002.
The following schools participated: Saint Mary's School, Cary Academy, Carolina Friends School, Duke School, Durham Academy, Montessori Community School, Ravenscroft, Triangle Day School, and Trinity School.