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2006 Midwest Regional Conference I 17 <br />Lincoln, Nebraska • July 2006 <br />Teaching the Westward Movement with Music and Proven <br />Activities Which Will Raise Test Scores <br />Lancaster IV -VI <br />Christine Day, Unified School District 475, Kansas <br />Marcia Fox, Unified School District 320, Kansas <br />African American Freedom Movements in the Midwest <br />During the Civil Rights Era: Civil Rights Activism Along the <br />Kansas - Missouri Corridor <br />Arbor <br />Presiding: Ashley Howard, University of Nebraska, Omaha <br />The Homestead of the Free: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Lawrence, Kansas <br />Rusty Monhollon, Hood College <br />Black Liberators and Militant Civil Rights Activism in St. Louis <br />During the Late -1960s <br />Kenneth Jolly, Saginaw State University <br />Business, Culture, and Power. The Civil Rights Movement in Kansas City, Missouri <br />Delia Gillis, Central Missouri State University <br />Comment: Ashley Howard <br />This session will be linked with the session, "African American Freedom <br />Movements in the Midwest during the Civil Rights Era: Civil Rights Activ- <br />ism in the 'Rustbelt, "' which will be held in the same meeting room dur- <br />ing the 3:30 p.m. session Friday, July 7. For those interested in the topic, or <br />who are participating in the panels, this expanded arrangement will allow <br />for a broader and deeper discussion of the topic during the conference. <br />®3:30 p.m. Friday, July 7 <br />Analyzing the Big Picture Through the Lens of Local History <br />Grand Ballroom B <br />Donald Owen, Urbana, Illinois School District <br />Katherine Barbour, Urbana, Illinois School District <br />Mexicanas in the Midwest: Building Foundational Histories <br />Grand Ballroom C <br />Presiding: Vicki Ruiz, University of California, Irvine <br />Mexicanas in School and Community in Iowa <br />Teresa Garcia, University of Iowa <br />Mexicanas in Nebraska: Making Self and Community <br />Laur Munoz, Arizo State_Uni <br />From Mexico to Chicago. Women's Educational Opportunities in the 1950s <br />Angelica Rivera, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign <br />Comment: Gabriela Arredondo, University of California, Santa Cruz <br />