"We Are All Birmingham": Fourth Graders' Inquiry into an Oft-Racialized City and Its Suburbs

"We Are All Birmingham": Fourth Graders' Inquiry into an Oft-Racialized City and Its Suburbs

  1. Social Studies and the Young Learner
  2. Social Studies and the Young Learner January/February 2024
  3. "We Are All Birmingham": Fourth Graders' Inquiry into an Oft-Racialized City and Its Suburbs

Authors:

Jeremiah Clabough

John Bickford

Emily Blackstock

Page:9-15

Journal Issue:

Issue
Social Studies and the Young Learner January/February 2024

The authors present a seven-day project within the Birmingham metropolitan area where fourth graders researched the creation of suburban school systems in their city. The fourth graders analyzed primary and secondary sources to research the role that issues of race played in this process.