With a wide variety of engaging and informative sessions, the ICSS Fall Conference is the perfect opportunity to hone your craft, to network with other social studies professionals, and to assist in advocating for high-quality social studies in Illinois Schools. To register for this wonderful social studies professional development event, click here. For questions, please email [email protected]
Guest Speaker Pastor Wheeler Parker, Jr.
Pastor Wheeler Parker, Jr. is the survivor of the Emmett Till kidnapping and murder in 1955. At sixteen years of age, Wheeler and his cousin Emmett Till, age fourteen, traveled to Mississippi for a two-week vacation of fun at his grandfather’s home visiting with his young uncles. Their trip was aborted by the kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till who was taken at gunpoint from the home of Moses Wright, Wheeler’s maternal grandfather. Emmett’s body was found three days later floating in the Tallahatchie River with a cotton gin tied around his neck with barbed wire. For more than thirty years no one interviewed Wheeler or asked him what happened that fateful day at Bryant’s Store in Money, Mississippi. Wheeler Parker, Jr. is telling his own story in the forthcoming book, by Random House, entitled, A Few Days Full of Trouble.
ICSS Fall Conference Registration
ICSS Member $50
ICSS Renewal & Registration $70
Retired ICSS Member $40
Non-Member (includes 1 year membership) $70
Student (includes 1 year membership) $25· ICSS Member $50
ICSS Renewal & Registration $70
Retired ICSS Member $40
Non-Member (includes 1 year membership) $70
Student (includes 1 year membership) $25
November 22-24, 2019--National Council for the Social Studies--Austin, Texas The Premiere National Social Studies event of the year, this conference has hundreds of sessions, world-renowned speakers, and cultural opportunities that grow beyond the conference venue. Want to gain a national view of the current thinking in social studies? Register for this conference! You will certainly see Illinois colleagues there!