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The Power of Black Teachers and the Public Good: Histories of Resistance, Agency, and Activism

Mon, April 20, 12:25 to 1:55pm, Virtual Room

Session Type: Symposium

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This session explores, recounts, and prioritizes the histories of Black teachers. Together the three papers investigate the connections between Black teachers and various notions of the public good. There is much to be learned from the resistance, agency, and activism of Black teachers over the last century that deepens and complicates our understanding of the racial history of U.S. education and contemporary struggles for educational justice. Grounded in rigorous historical inquiry, spanning chronological eras, and drawing on new archival and oral history sources, the scholarship featured in this symposium seeks to build bridges that connect the past to the present and historians to the broader fight for social justice.

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