Civil Rights
Miles talks about the civil rights movement of the ’50s and 60’s. Why it was important then and how those lessons affect our movements today.
View the Lesson Plan
Resources and Links
Check out your local community organizations working for racial and social justice
About the Teacher
Miles Tokunow is a multimedia storyteller. He is an artist, organizer, and educator. He is a dancer, musician, writer, zine maker and film editor. He is a proud member of the Ground Series Dance Collective.
He's worked in the non-profit sector for over ten years, teaching radio production, film and narrative storytelling, as well as creative media like 3-D printing, coding & interactive installations. Currently he organizes around issues of immigration, democracy reform and worker's rights.
He has partnered with New Mexico Public Libraries, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History, the New Mexico School for the Arts, Kenyon University, Grinnell College, and has presented at conferences nationally and internationally.
He is married to the poet and artist Naima Yael Tokunow, and they live and homestead in Albuquerque, NM, with their child, three dogs, fruit trees, gardens & chickens. He hopes to add goats and crickets soon.