Dear friends and colleagues
I have been invited to join an oral history database on Black history (see
email below) as part of an educational forum website
(www.educationforum.ipbhost.com ) run by John Simkin
(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk) and I would urge you to make a contribution
to this very exciting and important project. The opportunity for educators
and students to have access to your experiences and insights will help to
expand the understanding of the important contributions that men and women
from ethnic minority communites have made in Britain and the diaspora. Even
if you feel that you don't have anything important to say (which is
nonsense), we strongly feel that any posting will be of great benefit. The
material that is posted on the website will be used as teaching material as
well as developing into an important historical archive. If you want to
post a contribution then you will need to register on the website and then
you can post away at your leisure. You can find the start of the project
here: http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=818
Dan Lyndon
(Head of History, Henry Compton School)
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Dan,
I am involved with a group of European teachers in creating an oral
history databases on Black History. The plan is to start threads where
people can provide first-hand accounts on important events in the struggle
for equal civil rights. I am in contact with Tommie Smith and Robert Moses.
I am hoping they will contribute. Do you have any contacts in this area. I
would like to get historians, researchers, teachers, to comment on these
events as well. I might start it off with my impression of Tommie Smith’s
protest at the Olympic Games. This material will eventually be used as a
teaching resource. For example, I plan to create some teaching activities
based on the material that is created.
John Simkin
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