Thomas Day Institutes offering expenses-paid summer k-12 workshops

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Dear Colleague:

My name is Gillian Sneed and I'm the registrar for the educational
organization based in NC called the Thomas Day Education
Project. We are offering expenses-paid summer k-12 educator professional
development workshops on African American history,
culture, and artisanship funded by the NEH Landmarks of American History
Grant. This is a national project, and we are very eager
to recruit applicants from your area.

We wanted to ask if there is any way you could help us disseminate this
information to educators (teachers, librarians,
administrators, historic site educators) you have contact with  by
posting a link to our web site from your web site, or by forwarding
this information as an email, a listserv, e-newsletter, or posting it on
an e-bboard, etc. ? The information on our professional
development workshops is listed below. Our web site is www.thomasday.net
. Let me know if you think you can help us! Thanks for
your time.

Gillian Sneed
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K-12 Educator Professional Development Workshops on Multicultural
History and Arts, Summer 2005

The North Carolina Museum of History in partnership with the Thomas Day
Education Project is offering a series of workshops for
K-12 educators nationwide entitled,  "Crafting Freedom: Thomas Day and
Elizabeth Keckly, Black Artisans and Entrepreneurs in the
Making of America." This professional development opportunity to
selected educators will have most expenses paid. We are
especially eager to make this opportunity available to you and your
colleagues. As there are 150 openings we especially encourage
you to apply and/or to share this information with your colleagues and
others in your school system!

This series of three 5-day, professional development workshops in
African American history are a part of the Landmarks of American
History program funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
They are aimed at providing K-12 educators with the
opportunity to engage in intensive study and discussion of important
topics and issues in American history while providing direct
experiences in the interpretation of significant historical sites. Media
specialists, librarians, and teachers in public, private, parochial,
and charter schools, as well as home schooling parents are urged to
apply. Other K-12 educators including administrators,
substitute teachers, and museum and site educators are also eligible.

The "Crafting Freedom" workshop theme is based upon recent scholarship
on the participation of enslaved and free black men and
women in the nineteenth-century "market revolution." Thomas Day was a
celebrated free black Southern cabinetmaker. He had the
largest furniture shop in North Carolina in 1850 and was recently
described in a January '04 issue of the New York Times as a
"major antebellum figure." Elizabeth Keckly, generally considered the
most important African-American woman in the clothing
business prior to the Civil War, was also a skilled dressmaker and
confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln. She was also the author of an
important slave narrative and best seller, Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty
Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House.

"Crafting Freedom" 2005 will be offered in 3 sessions:
Session 1: June 16-21, 2005
Session 2: June 23-28, 2005
Session 3: July 7-12, 2005

Applicants must complete and submit their applications by March 21st
(postmark deadline March 15) to be eligible. For full
information on the application process and on the content of the
workshops, please look for the "Crafting Freedom Workshops" link
on our website, www.thomasday.net , or contact us by phone at 919 405
2326 or toll free at 877 438 1599,
by email at tdek05@xxxxxxx, or by
US mail at Crafting Freedom Workshops/ Box 12888/
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.

We hope to hear from you soon, and don't hesitate to contact us if you
have any further questions!

Best Wishes,

Gillian Sneed
Registrar
Crafting Freedom Workshops, 2005
Thomas Day Education Project
P.O. Box 12888
Research Triangle Park (RTP), NC 27709
(919) 405 2326
1 877 438 1599 (toll free)
tdek05@xxxxxxx
www.thomasday.net

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