Celebrate Black History! Minds on Freedom
DRAMATIC PRESENTATION
Henry Ford Museum hosts many activities during Black History Month in February. Few, though, are quite so stirring as “Minds on Freedom,” a 30-minute interactive musical and dramatic program. America’s civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s is recounted in a rich tapestry of spoken word and music that celebrates the groups and individuals who had the courage and commitment to ask more from their nation.

Location: Henry Ford Museum
Offered: February 1–28, 2010
Program Length: 30 minutes
Fees: FREE with Museum admission

With Liberty and Justice for All
EXHIBIT
Our With Liberty and Justice for All exhibit focuses on four transformative eras in America’s quest for freedom: the Revolutionary Era, the Antislavery Movement and Civil War Era, the Women’s Suffrage Movement and the modern Civil Rights Movement. Henry Ford Museum is unparalleled in artifacts that spur dialogue and debate — everything from the bus where Rosa Parks sparked the nation’s social conscience to a rare 1823 reproduction of the Declaration of Independence. By coming face-to-face with these primary sources, combined with classroom discussion and project-based learning activities, students can gain new insights into the nation’s core democratic values and the power of civic participation. Visit our With Liberty and Justice for All website at thehenryford.org/museum/liberty to learn more about the exhibit and to explore related artifacts, a timeline and curriculum-aligned classroom and Museum resources.

Location: Henry Ford Museum
Offered: Year-round
Program Length: Flexible
Online Resources: Instructional Unit/Lesson Plans, Self-guided Exhibit Exploration Guide
Fees: FREE with Museum admission

With Liberty and Justice for All Symposium
Our annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day symposium is among the most sobering yet uplifting events of the year. The 2010 program will feature keynote speakers and student panelists addressing themes, ideas, people and groups represented in With Liberty and Justice for All, regarded by many as our most distinguished exhibit.

High school students are invited to participate in a post-symposium reflective essay contest. For more details, contact Dorothy Ebersole at 313.982.6036.

Location: Henry Ford Museum
Offered: Martin Luther King Jr. Day – January 19, 2010
Program Length: Half-day
Fees: FREE with Museum admission

Tally’s Tales
DRAMATIC PRESENTATION
When a woman named Tally begins to share the stories of her former life as a slave, sometimes words just aren’t enough. So she sings. And by the end of this 15-minute dramatic presentation about the ability to endure, your students will be singing, too. Compelling, inspiring, tragic and uplifting. It’s a show your students won’t forget.

Location: Greenfield Village
Offered: May 3–June 11, 2010
Program Length: 15 minutes
Fees: FREE with Village admission

Votes for All
DRAMATIC PRESENTATION
In the course of this 20-minute gathering, suffragists share the history of their movement, the thoughts of important suffrage activists and even lead your group in historic suffrage songs.

Location: Greenfield Village
Offered: May 3–June 11, 2010
Program Length: 20 minutes
Fees: FREE with Village admission

C is for Citizenship
DRAMATIC PRESENTATION
Immerse your students in the vitality of life in a one-room schoolhouse. Miss Nardin or Mr. Chapman will guide them through a 19th-century civics lesson in the Scotch Settlement School. The interactive session offers a lively lesson in citizenship as students have fun with true-and-false questions, spelling and even some tongue twisters.

Location: Greenfield Village
Offered: May 3–June 11, 2010
Program Length: 20 minutes
Fees: FREE with Village admission