Robert MayerRobert Mayer is the award-winning author of In the Name of Emmett Till: How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow and When the Children Marched: The Birmingham Civil Rights Movement. He has written fr Cobblestone Magazine, Social Education, Magazine of History, and The Social Studies. Mayer was a teacher for forty-one years and won the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2009. Now retired, he continues to co-teach a course entitled "The Civil Rights Movement and the Moral Life", as well as tutor eighth graders at a local middle school. Mayer has been an active presence at conferences, speaking at the National Council for the Social Studies and the American Educational Research Association annual conferences, as well as regional conferences. Read More Read Less