Participating teachers will ask their students to conduct interviews with activists who helped advance human rights and freedoms. Students will analyze these stories to explore how civic ideals are realized through grass-roots efforts. The narratives will then be archived for use by educators, scholars and researchers in a Democracy Memory Bank on the Civic Voices Web site. The Memory Bank, as well as a comprehensive teacher's guide and other free teaching materials, at http://www.civicvoices.org.

The project will also offer international teacher exchanges and professional development programs in the United States and the partner countries listed below. Programs within United States will consist of a series of Civil Rights Seminars in Birmingham, Ala., and at the Martin Luther King Library in Boston, Mass.

The American Federation of Teachers Educational Foundation is proud to partner in this project with teachers' unions in seven countries. The project will help commemorate the stories of these important struggles:

Civic Voices is funded by a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education under the Education for Democracy Act approved by the U.S. Congress. You can find more information about this project and download an application at: http://www.aft.org/civicvoices/

If you have questions or want more information about state-wide efforts on this project, contact:
Roger Miller via email at Miller_Roger@asdk12.org