Topics in African American Education During the Postwar Era

• In Event: Roundtable Session 66

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This panel will deal with topics under the broad rubric of African American education in the years between 1945 and 1980. One is a case study of Sumner High School in Kansas City, Kansas, and example of a “good Black high school” located outside the South. . A second paper examines the high school protest activities of Black students during the 1960s and 70s, when hundreds of such protests occurred in schools across the country. A third paper features a quantitative analysis of Black teacher employment in the South during the desegregation era. In offering new perspectives on various dimensions of Black education during the postwar era—institutions, students and teachers—this panel will provide audience members a unique opportunity to consider changes that occurred in this time, new research on the period, and research questions that still need attention.

Sub Unit

• Division F - Historical Inquiry in Education

Cosponsor

• SIG-Research Focus on Black Education

Chair

• Emily Straus, SUNY - College at Fredonia

Papers

• Decreased Employment of Black American Teachers: 1940-1980 - Aarti Bajaj Judd, University of Missouri - Kansas City

• Black High School Protest in the United States, 1960-1980 - John L. Rury, The University of Kansas

• Sumner High School and Community Identity - Aaron Rife, The University of Kansas