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Wednesday, June 10th - Let the Children March

In this series of videos we explore and document some of the work that has been done by children at Rose Avenue addressing anti-black racism and oppression.  

The book Let the Children March was used to begin exploring anti-black racism and oppression, and was adapted to support an activity in which children learned a musical arrangement of text originally written by writer and activist Assata Shakur.  In our school community this text is referred to as the Assata.  This inital activity was then used as a spring board to launch into the composition of original pieces of music composed by children with lyrical and musical content that address the issues that we began exploring in this text.

It is important to acknowledge that this text explores these concepts within the context of the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama 1963.  In the larger context of continued anti-black racism and oppression this book offers a very narrow focus.  This activity can, and should be done with other resources that can offer more perspectives, and with other activities that continue focusing on teaching music with social justice and anti-oppression frameworks.  

For the purposes of this presentaiton, we have used an e-book pruchased through Vimeo.  All credits are included in the third video presented in the series below.