Graduate’ Students' Experience with The Black Teacher Archive (BTA) and Historical Restorying Scholarship

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Description: This panel provides a platform for graduate students to share their personal experiences with The Black Teacher Archive (BTA), a freely available digital portal centralizing materials created by professional organizations of African American educators, historically referred to as Colored Teachers Associations (CTAs). The BTA highlights the legacy of Black educators.

Abstract: The purpose of this panel is to provide a platform for graduate students to share their personal experiences with The Black Teacher Archive (BTA) and the importance of Black teachers.

Founded and Co-Directed by Dr. Imani Perry (Harvard University Henry A. Morss, Jr. and Elisabeth W. Morss Professor of Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality and of African and African American Studies), and Dr. Jarvis (Harvard University Professor of Education, Faculty Affiliate, African and African American Studies), The Black Teacher Archive (BTA) is a freely available digital portal centralizing materials created by professional organizations of African American educators, historically referred to as Colored Teachers Associations (CTAs). The primary holdings of the portal are 20th century serial publications by CTAs.

The collection makes public the intellectual, political, and cultural contributions of Black educators during the Jim Crow era through the Civil Rights era. The BTA brings together materials from 70 archival repositories across the United States and makes available for research more than 50,000 pages authored by African American educators.

BTA is based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in association with the Monroe C. Gutman Library Special Collections and is made possible through the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Spencer Foundation.

Sub Unit

• Graduate Student Council

Chair

• Honey Walrond, University of California - Berkeley

Discussants

• Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Nina L. Gilbert, Morehouse College

Panelists

• Abdul-Qadir D. Islam, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Jaminque L. Adams, University of Georgia

• GeColby Joseph Youngblood, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Cassondra Hanna, Harvard University