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      Collective memory and historical narratives: The African American civil rights movement

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      History Education Research Journal
      UCL Press
      teacher candidates, narrative construction, race, collective memory, images

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          This study explores how undergraduates, as historical thinkers, learn to interact with history and construct their understanding of the past, and examines the role that primary and secondary sources play in narrative construction and revision. Using the African American civil rights movement as a content focus, participants used images to create initial narratives that reflected their understanding of the movement. Half the participants then read an essay on the movement written by a prominent historian, and the other half examined 18 primary sources that reflected the historian’s interpretation of the movement. Participants then each created a second narrative, again selecting images to depict their understanding of the movement. The results of the study suggest that even as students work with primary sources, they need an effective narrative framework based on recent scholarship to forge powerful counter-narratives that transcend outdated interpretations and historical myths. In terms of teaching and learning about the lengthy struggle for racial justice in the United States, simply encouraging teachers and students to ‘do history’ and conduct their own online research is unlikely to change persistent narrative structures that continue to enable and excuse systemic racism.

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                Journal
                herj
                History Education Research Journal
                UCL Press (UK )
                2631-9713
                19 October 2021
                : 18
                : 2
                : 166-182
                Affiliations
                [1]Illinois State University, USA
                [2]National Council for History Education, USA
                Author notes
                *Corresponding author – email: rhughes@ 123456ilstu.edu
                Author information
                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3254-1982
                https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6636-1907
                Article
                10.14324/HERJ.18.2.03
                b5b5e321-dcc3-4ae4-a98b-18dc34b1d883
                Copyright © 2021 Hughes and Drake Brown

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 15 January 2021
                : 19 April 2021
                Page count
                References: 94, Pages: 18

                Educational research & Statistics,General education,History
                teacher candidates,collective memory,race,narrative construction,images

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