Schooling the Movement: The Activism of Southern Black Educators from Reconstruction Through the Civil Rights Era - Softcover

Derrick P. Alridge (editor); Jon N. Hale (editor) & Tondra L. Loder-Jackson (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1643363751 ISBN 13: 9781643363752

Publisher: The University of South Carolina Press, 2023

Synopsis

A fresh examination of an underexplored aspect of the civil rights movement–teacher activism

Drawing on oral history interviews and archival research, Schooling the Movement examines the pedagogical activism and vital contributions of Black teachers throughout the Black freedom struggle. By illuminating teachers' activism during the long civil rights movement, the editors and contributors connect the past with the present, contextualizing teachers longstanding role as advocates for social justice. Schooling the Movement moves beyond the prevailing understanding that activism was defined solely by litigation and direct-action forms of protest. The authors in this volume broaden our conceptions of what it meant to actively take part in or contribute to the civil rights movement.

About this title

About the Author

Derrick P. Alridge is Philip J. Gibson Professor of Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies at the University of Virginia.

Jon N. Hale is associate professor of education and educational history at the University of llinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Tondra L. Loder-Jackson is professor of educational foundations, history, and African American studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Edition details

• Publisher: The University of South Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1643363751
• ISBN 13: 9781643363752
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304