Creating Black Pride: Activism and Historical Understanding of Jeff-Vander-Lou

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Three
  In Roundtable Session: Activism, Pride, and Resistance March On (Table 1)

Abstract

In this paper, we hope to connect Communities' One present-day struggle to reopen Dunbar Elementary with the massive effort to open the school one hundred years ago: A struggle tied to fights for educational equity. We ask, how can the study of early 20th-century movements for black educational reform help us push back against current efforts? What can the organization efforts of individuals who dealt with fiscal neglect and violence merely two generations away from slavery tell us about our struggles a hundred years later?

Authors

• Tenille-Rose Martin, University of Missouri - St. Louis
  Presenting Author

• Luimil Negrón, University of Missouri - St. Louis
  Presenting Author