Recovering Black Teacher Historiographies and the Necessity of Archival Justice Work in Black Education

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Abstract

This paper examines the culturally responsive archival practices of an emerging historian and teacher educator of Black education who participated in the inaugural Black Teacher Archive (BTA) Pilot Summer Research Institute. Through the historical analysis of periodicals produced by Colored Teachers Associations across Southern states during the early 20th century, this presentation will discuss these publications as an artifact, a body of literature, and a collection of data, as well as the variety of ways to approach the Black Teacher Archive to interrogate the history of Black education. Within this presentation, a series of epistemological, ontological, and historiographical inquiries while offering insight about how archival research in education may forge new meanings for contemporary struggles for education renewal.

Author

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