Poster Sessions
Friday & Saturday

Presentation Time: Friday, 10:45 - 11:20

Presenter & Affiliation:  Karla Thompson

Session Description:  From NAACP special counsel to Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall devoted his career to advancing equality through the power of law. His landmark arguments and decisions on voting rights, education, and civil liberties transformed American democracy. This session offers Maryland Public Television’s new documentary, Becoming Thurgood: America’s Social Architect, and the Maryland Center for History and Culture’s Passion and Purpose exhibition and related primary source collections as catalysts for classroom conversations about civics, justice, and constitutional rights. Participants will examine photographs, oral histories, and documentary clips that bring Marshall’s cases to life and explore strategies that inspire civic learning.

Presentation Time: Saturday, 10:15 - 10:55

Presenter & Affiliation:  Lisa Prueter, Kimberly de Jorgh, Holly Golder, and Jill Szymanski, Brandywine SD (DE)

Session Description:  Join us as we share strategies from our Library of Congress grant to engage K-3 students with primary sources related to Black History. Learn how to select resources that spark young students’ curiosity, build their social studies content knowledge, and support their literacy skills. Leave with sources and activities that help tell the stories of Black Americans through the lenses of civics, history, and geography.