Carolina K-12, part of the Carolina Public Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, hosted the conference. It received a $974,000 American History and Civics grant from the U.S. Department of Education over three years. These funds enabled the group to host this professional development.
Cori Greer-Banks, a 24-year veteran teacher and the director of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Carolina K-12 program, set the tone for the educators on day one.
“The question here that I want you guys to consider is: What can Wilmington, this place, teach us about democracy, memory, and our responsibility to tell the whole story?” she asked.
Greer-Banks was one of the pioneers in teaching what happened during the Wilmington coup and massacre at a charter school in Raleigh in the mid 2010s. 1898 didn’t appear in the state standards until 2021…