PROGRAM

This workshop focused on the internationalization of civil rights and human rights. We explored the links between the United States and South Africa in the struggle for racial equality, and made connections to the work of Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the ongoing global struggle for human rights. The morning session featured the documentary film RFK in the Land of Apartheid: A Ripple of Hope, about Robert Kennedy’s 1966 visit to South Africa, and his famous “Ripple of Hope” speech.

The workshop was designed for U.S. and global history, government, civics, and ELA teachers who teach not only about South Africa and apartheid, but also about the U.S. Civil Rights Movement and the UDHR.

A collaboration between Facing History and Ourselves, the Hunter College Department of Film & Media Studies, the Hunter College School of Education, Hunter College High School, the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College. $10 registration fee includes lunch and materials.

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  • Facing History and Ourselves

    Facing History and Ourselves is an international educational non-profit organization that engages middle and high school teachers and their students in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism by relating the past to the world today.

    Facing History believes that the study of history is a moral enterprise. By studying the historical development of the Holocaust and other examples of genocide or collective violence, students learn the essential connection between history and the moral choices they face in their own lives.




South Africa, the United States, and Human Rights: A Ripple of Hope | Posted on November 15th, 2012 | Faculty Public Programs, Public Programs