Social Justice as General Education

Reexamining the Montgomery Bus Boycott: Toward an Empathetic Pedagogy of the Civil Rights Movement

“…The relative neglect of this topic is at odds with the well-established body of work addressing both the need and techniques for considering social justice and economic welfare in the geography curriculum (e.g., Dwyer 1999;Merrett 2000Merrett , 2004Russo 2004;Webster 2004). Thus, this article addresses the gap by lending our voices to the rising chorus of educators and activists outside of the field who seek to unseat what has become the traditional Movement narrative.…”