HMS teacher interacts with Civil Rights history

Homewood Middle School teacher Liz Pipkin participated in “A Tale of Two Cities” workshop in March. She and other Alabama educators were part of an interactive field study of the 50th Commemoration of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery March for the Right to Vote and the 60th Commemoration of the Montgomery Bus Boycott.  

The SUPER Workshop was sponsored by Alabama Humanities with the project director being Matha Bouyer, the executive director of Historic Bethel Baptist Church Foundation and NEH Landmarks of American History and culture Workshops Director. The lead scholar was Dr. Glenn Eskew, professor of Southern history at Georgia State University.