Bayard Rustin organized one of the most successful forms of protest in our country’s history—the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Yet, he is often silenced within the PK-12 curriculum because of his sexual orientation as an out, gay man.

In this webinar, Corey R. Sell, Associate Professor of Elementary Education at the Metropolitan State University, describes how he ueed the four dimensions of the C3 Inquiry Arc and the Library of Congress resources to design an inquiry that challenges both the dominant and heteronormative narratives of the Civil Rights Movement. Professor Sell also shares his planning processes including the use of the Library of Congress website to locate sources and my inductive approach towards framing the inquiry with a compelling and supporting questions. Instructional strategies and classroom ideas will be shared for applying this work in an elementary or middle grade setting.  

The presentation was provided through the NCSS Teaching with Primary Sources grant from the Library of Congress.