Find Your Voice Curriculum
Educator’s Workshop
Ideas and expressions from teachers during the first Find Your Voice Educator's Workshop (2018) cover the whiteboard in preparation for the launch of the curriculum in August 2019.
Dr. Davis Houck, one of the developers and designers of the Find Your Voice K-12 Educational Curriculum organizes folders for teachers for the first day of the workshop.
Teachers during the 2018 Educator's Workshop are amazed at the personal stories of Charles McLaurin (far left) who worked with Fannie Lou Hamer for several years. McLaurin was invited to speak to the class by curriculum developer and Fannie Lou Hamer historian Dr. Maegan Parker Brooks.
Dr. Maegan Parker Brooks (l) and Dr. Davis Houck (r) joint teachers from the Mississippi Delta who helped develop and design a K-12 educational curriculum dedicated to voting rights activist and humanitarian Fannie Lou Hamer.
Presentations / Conferences
Fannie Lou Hamer historian and author, Dr. Maegan Parker Brooks and Pablo Correa, both professors at Willamette University, participated in the 2018 Race and Pedagogy National Conference in Tacoma, Washington.
Dr. Brooks discusses the Find Your Voice K-12 Curriculum at the 2019 Rhetoric Society of America Workshop, held at the University of Maryland.
Dr. Pablo Correa discusses his work with the Fannie Lou Hamer's America project and its Find Your Voice K-12 Curriculum at the University of Mississippi. The School of Journalism and New Media’s Common Ground Committee partnered with the Mississippi Scholastic Press Association (MSPA) for the event.
A banner outside Tougaloo College in Tougaloo, Mississippi displays the theme for the 12th annual Veteran's of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement Conference in 2017. The theme, "Nobody's Free Until Everybody's Free" commemorated Hamer's 100th birthday.
A commemorative booklet celebrating Hamer's accomplishments was distributed during the conference at Tougaloo College.
Dr. Maegan Parker Brooks (right) speaks of the Fannie Lou Hamer's America project and Find Your Voice Curriculum at the 2018 Race and Pedagogy National Conference in Tacoma, Washington. Pablo Correa (center) also presented.
Filmmaker Keith Beauchamp, pictured with Maegan Parker Brooks, spoke at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, in the fall of 2016. Beauchamp is an executive producer of the upcoming documentary, Fannie Lou Hamer's America. Brooks is a consultant and lead researcher.
A poster for the presentation of Dr. Brooks at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Dr. Pablo Correa, videographer for the film, Fannie Lou Hamer's America and instructor for the Sunflower County Film Academy, presents at the 2019 Pacific Northwest Race, Rhetoric, and Media Conference held at Lewis and Clark University in Portland, Oregon. This talk was co-sponsored by the undergraduate college and the Graduate School of Education and Counseling.
Dr. Brooks is pictured with two students at a presentation about Fannie Lou Hamer in March 2019 at the University of Georgia in Athens.
Keith Beauchamp speaks about the Fannie Lou Hamer's America project at the 2018 Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement Conference at Tougaloo College in Mississippi. During the "Fannie Lou Hamer's America and Emmett Till Roundtable," he premiered a special Centennial video commemorating Hamer's life, produced and edited by the film's director, Joy Davenport.
In March 2019, Pablo Correa (far right) and Maegan Parker Brooks spoke about their experiences during the production of Fannie Lou Hamer’s America (a documentary project) and how to teach the civil rights across the curriculum at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
Dr. Brooks speaks at the Fannie Lou Hamer's America project at the University of Southern Mississippi, in Hattiesburg, in the fall of 2017.
Commemorative buttons of Fannie Lou Hamer's 100th birthday were distributed at the 2017 Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement conference in Tougaloo.
A poster for the presentation of Drs. Brooks and Correa at Lewis & Clark College on Find Your Voice.
On April 1, 2019, the School of Journalism and New Media’s Common Ground Committee at the University of Mississippi partnered with MSPA to bring filmmaker, Dr. Pablo Correa to the campus to discuss his work with the Fannie Lou Hamer’s America documentary team. “It was an honor to work in collaboration with the MSPA convention and the University of Mississippi to inspire the next generation of journalists and storytellers,” Correa said.
Watch Correa’s presentation on our YouTube link!