Race and Sports
A free in-person professional development program for teachers
Saturday, November 11, 2023.
How can sports help us teach central moments and concepts in US history? This in-person program, at Charlottesville’s celebrated Jefferson School African American Heritage Center, featuring scholars from the University of Virginia and elsewhere, will focus on the role of sports in the history of desegregation in Virginia. Multimedia resources will be demonstrated, discussed, and made available. The program is free for all middle and high school teachers, with breakfast and lunch provided - please register to attend.
Photo above: Interscholastic tennis tournament at UVA - Arthur Ashe is in the top row, to the right of the player with a hat. The player to the right of Arthur Ashe is Ron Goldman, his doubles partner. Photograph courtesy of Mr. Robert Johnson, a presenter at this event.
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Agenda
8:45 - 9:15
Registration, coffee, pastries
9:15 - 9:30
Welcome + Short video of late Dr. Robert Johnson
9:30 - 9:45
Introduction
Derrick Alridge, Project Director Education, Philip J. Gibson Professor of Education, Affiliate faculty member in the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, University of Virginia.
9:45 - 10:30
No Playbook - School Integration During Massive Resistance
https://noplaybook.albemarlehistory.org
Tom Chapman, Executive Director, Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society
Lorenzo Dickerson, Documentary film-maker
Abby Farson Pratt, Web Studio Director for The Journey Group
10:15 - 10:30
Break
10:30 - 11:15
Desegregation of tennis in Virginia, including excerpts from film
Robert Johnson, Historian, Grandson of late Dr. Robert Johnson, former tennis coach and mentor of Arthur Ashe and Althea Gibson.
11:15 - 12:00
National context for desegregation of sports in Virginia
Bonnie Hagerman, Associate Professor, Women, Gender & Sexuality, University of Virginia
12:00 - 1:00
Lunch
1:00 - 1:45
Thinking about sports and race in contemporary classrooms
Paul Harris, Founder, Integrity Matters, LLC
1:45 - 2:30
Using No Playbook
Nora Grabcheski, ACHS Public History intern
Annie Evans, Director of Education and Outreach, New American History
2:30 - 2:45
Coffee Break
2:45 - 3:45
Concluding session: Takeaways, next steps, evaluation form
Annie Evans, Director of Education and Outreach, New American History
This program is sponsored by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
