Starting October 1, 2003, Charles Payne will moderate a month-long open discussion on teaching about the U.S. Civil Rights Movement on the HISTORY MATTERS Web site. To subscribe, go to http://ashp.listserv.cuny.edu/archives/civilrights.html and choose “Join or leave the list.” This forum will run from October 1 through October 31, 2003.

Payne will answer questions and lead a discussion on teaching about the Civil Rights Movement in high school and college U.S. history survey courses, with specific suggestions for strategies and sources. Although the moderator will respond to questions and comments, we also encourage participants to respond to one another.

Charles M. Payne is the Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of History, African American Studies, and Sociology, and Director of the African and African American Studies Program at Duke University. He is the author of Getting What We Ask For: The Ambiguity of Success and Failure in Urban Education; Debating the Civil Rights Movement; and the award-winning I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Movement.

HISTORY MATTERS is a gateway to the Web for teachers of the U.S. History Survey course. It provides high school and college teachers (and their students) a starting point for exploring American history on the Web with 800 first-person historical documents for use in the classroom, an annotated guide to 700 quality, history websites, and a range of teaching resources (including sample syllabi, teaching assignments, and forums). HISTORY MATTERS is a project of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York. The HISTORY MATTERS website was created with support from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The 2002-2003 forums are funded by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities