This article explores the work and findings of the Praxis Project: a group of university educators who worked with elementary and secondary school teachers in a professional development setting to reinvigorate their civil rights pedagogy. The Praxis group created a "Six Category Model for Teaching Civil Rights" and used that model as a foundation for discussions, presentations, and debate during the professional development sessions. The Praxis Project also implemented the pedagogy of that model in a classroom setting for a group of high school students under the observation of their teachers. The professional development sessions created a three-way dialogue between the Praxis group, the educators, and students that highlighted the obstacles and the opportunities of teaching the civil rights movement in the current educational climate. (Contains 8 notes.)