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Mayor Floyd McCree, 1962 Mayor James Sharp, circa 1984

Floyd McCree was Flint’s
first African American
City Commissioner and
City Council-selected mayor.

In 1983, James Sharp
became Flint's first
African American elected mayor, voted in by citizens.

The Pursuit of Happiness: Sustaining a Democracy

ABOUT THE GRANT

In June 2007, the U.S. Department of Education awarded the Flint Community Schools a new Teaching American History Grant. The grant is designed for a limited number of secondary history teachers in the Flint Community Schools, Bendle Public Schools, and Mt. Morris Consolidated Schools.

SCHEDULE & RESOURCES

2009/2010 SESSIONS
Fall Evening Colloquium Session
Thursday, November 5, 2009
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Sarvis Conference Center
"Urbanization of America Across Time and the Rise of the City"
Professor Dewitt Dykes

Fall Practicum Work Session
Thursday, November 12, 2009
8:30 am - 3:30 pm
Sarvis Conference Center
"Westward Migration (8th Grade) & The Roaring 20s/Great Migration (9th Grade)"
Teacher Created Materials

Winter Evening Colloquium Session
Thursday, December 3, 2009
3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Sarvis Conference Center
"The Pursuit of Happiness: Arab American History"
The Arab American National Museum

2009 SUMMER SEMINAR
June 15-19, 2009
8:30 am -3:30 pm Daily
TAHG Fellows can log onto Blackboard to explore lesson plans and Smithsonian materials from the 2009 Summer Seminar.

RESOURCES FROM PAST SESSIONS
2009 Spring Evening Colloquium
Presenter: Greg Havrilcsak, University of Michigan-Flint
~Click here for Westward Movements Over Time PowerPoint

2009 Winter Practicum Work Session
Presenter: Judith Goodman, Teacher Created Materials
~Click here for Fluency PowerPoint

2008 Spring II Evening Colloquia
Presenter: Gregory Havrilcsak, University of Michigan-Flint
~Click here for Populism and Panic/Depression of 1893 PowerPoint

2007 Fall Evening Colloquia
Presenter: Dr. Benjamin Wilson, Western Michigan University

VIDEOS	Historic African American Towns, Home and Garden Television, Episode HTOWN-S03 http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/spcl_prsntn/episode/0,1806,HGTV_3909_30756,00.html Black Communities after the Civil War, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 1997. http://www.films.com/id/10318/Black_Communities_after_the_Civil_War.htm Fort Mose: A New Chapter in American History. Winter Park: Ironwood Productions, 1992. http://fortmose.com/ http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/hs_lp_florida.htm

BOOKS	Painter, Nell Irvin. The Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas after the Civil War. W.W. Norton & Co., 1992. Painter, Nell Irvin. Standing at Armageddon: The United States, 1877-1919. W.W. Norton & Co., 1989. Wilson, Benjamin. Black Eden: The Idlewild Community. Michigan State University Press, 2002. Wilson, Benjamin. African Americans in Michigan. Michigan State University, 2001.

WEBSITES	(PBS) The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow--Reconstruction (1865-1877) http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_reconstruct.html (Library of Congress) Reconstruction and Its Aftermath http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart5.html (PBS) Reconstruction--The Second Civil War http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/reconstruction/40acres/index.html

"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
	~ Maya Angelou, "On the Pulse of Morning"