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Event Series Event Series: Racial Learning & Anti-bias Program Series

Racial Learning & Anti-bias Program Series

July 30 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm

Rokeby Museum is offering 5 FREE racial learning & anti-bias programs for young children ages 4 to 6. Racial learning is a growing field based on the science of childhood development. For decades, experts have published studies concluding that toddlers and young children make racial observations and absorb stereotyping. Unfortunately, there is a disconnect between this and when most adults believe that they are. Likewise, young children are making astute perceptions about the world around them. They pay attention to who is boss, observe the advantages of a wealthy life, and draw correlations between power, privilege, and race. 

Racial and anti-bias learning provides children with language, concrete reasoning, and space to appreciate and make sense of our many similarities and differences. It also offers guidance to help children process and scrutinize the prejudice and inequity they observe in the world around them and learn how to act against it. Activities will include drawing, hands-on discovery, read-a-loud, and mixing paint to discover our unique skin color. Age-appropriate discussions will include laws, racism, resistance, learning about child activists, and more. While lessons are designed to be sequential, your child will have lots to take away whether you attend one or all.

Sessions:

July 30, 6:00–7:00 pm: Virtual Parent Orientation
August 3, 9:30–10:30 am: Family Diversity
August 10, 9:30–10:30 am: Skin Tone 1
August 24, 9:30–10:30 am: Skin Tone 2
August 31, 9:30–10:30 am: Racial Justice: Civil Rights Movement
September 7, 9:30–10:30 am: Taking Action

Registration required. An adult must accompany each child. Up to two adults are allowed per family. This event is limited to ten families per session.

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Rokeby Museum will host an evening discussion with author and journalist Scott Shane on his 2023 book Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland.

FLEE NORTH unearths the lost story of Thomas Smallwood, born into slavery in Maryland, who bought his freedom, educated himself, and became a shoemaker in Southwest Washington, a short walk from the U.S. Capitol. Smallwood began to organize mass escapes from slavery by the wagonload, with the help of a young white partner, Charles Torrey — and wrote about the escapes in extraordinary satirical dispatches for an abolitionist newspaper in Albany. It was Smallwood, Scott Shane discovered, who gave the underground railroad its name. Smallwood’s daring operation took place against the very dark background of the domestic slave trade, which thrived on Washington’s Mall and at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, shipping thousands of people every year away from their families to the cotton and sugar plantations of the deep south. The book’s third central character, Baltimore’s Hope Slatter, was the era’s dominant slave trader, operating from his private “slave jail” near Baltimore’s harbor.

To learn more and purchase tickets visit:
https://rokeby.org/event/lecture-with-scott-shane-author-of-flee-north-a-forgotten-hero-and-the-fight-for-freedom-in-slaverys-borderland/

#vermontevents #UGRR #undergroundrailroad #history #vermontactivities #scottshane

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Aug 27

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Rokeby Museum will host an evening discussion with author and journalist Scott Shane on his 2023 book Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland. FLEE NORTH unearths the lost story of Thomas Smallwood, born into slavery in Maryland, who bought his freedom, educated himself, and became a shoemaker in Southwest Washington, a short walk from the U.S. Capitol. Smallwood began to organize mass escapes from slavery by the wagonload, with the help of a young white partner, Charles Torrey — and wrote about the escapes in extraordinary satirical dispatches for an abolitionist newspaper in Albany. It was Smallwood, Scott Shane discovered, who gave the underground railroad its name. Smallwood’s daring operation took place against the very dark background of the domestic slave trade, which thrived on Washington’s Mall and at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, shipping thousands of people every year away from their families to the cotton and sugar plantations of the deep south. The book’s third central character, Baltimore’s Hope Slatter, was the era’s dominant slave trader, operating from his private “slave jail” near Baltimore’s harbor. To learn more and purchase tickets visit: https://rokeby.org/event/lecture-with-scott-shane-author-of-flee-north-a-forgotten-hero-and-the-fight-for-freedom-in-slaverys-borderland/ #vermontevents #UGRR #undergroundrailroad #history #vermontactivities #scottshane

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#letsgrowkidsvt #pie #icecream #vermont #vermontevents

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Aug 7

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Enjoy games and activities with Let's Grow Kids at Rokeby Museum's Pie & Ice Cream Social! #letsgrowkidsvt #pie #icecream #vermont #vermontevents

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