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Morgan Park Academy Teachers Win Grant Prize to Research Slave Trade and Civil Rights Resistance

2024-07-23 18:13:37.187000

English teacher Sandra Burgess and history teacher Marymarget Coakley from Morgan Park Academy (MPA) in Chicago, IL have been awarded an Innovation Circle Grant Prize from the Fund for Teachers. The grant will support their research project on the slave trade and civil rights resistance. The teachers traveled to Memphis, Jackson, New Orleans, and Montgomery to gather information and insights. They aim to develop a research project for MPA's curriculum that explores how slavery contributed to the U.S. economy and the opposition to its demise. Sandra Burgess was also recognized as a Fund for Teachers Fellow in 2022. Morgan Park Academy is an independent college preparatory school that was founded in 1873. [13c5d897]

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