Schooling the Movement

"African American educators have been given a bad rap in much of the literature on the civil rights movement. They have been accused of standing on the sidelines as their students and community members organized protests challenging racially discriminatory practices in southern society. Schooling the Movement challenges earlier perspectives on Black educators by documenting the radical pedagogy they practiced in providing an alternative curriculum highlighting African Americans' achievements and significant impact on American life and culture. Utilizing archival materials, a wide range of Black publications, and oral interviews, the contributors to Schooling the Movement focus on "educator activism" before and during the civil rights era. This impressive volume changes our understanding of the multidimensional roles Black educators played in advancing past and present movements for social change."—V. P. Franklin, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History and Education, University of California, Riverside and author of The Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers Who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement and The Education of Black Philadelphia: The Social and Educational History of a Minority Community, 1900-1950

"By revealing the often-dismissed activism of Black teachers, Derrick P. Alridge, Jon N. Hale, and Tondra L. Loder-Jackson's well-written edited volume removes Black teachers' civil rights contributions from the proverbial 'back of the civil rights history bus' to claim their rightful place as crucial components in understanding African American movements for social justice."—Sonya Y. Ramsey, professor of history and women's and gender studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and author of Bertha Maxwell-Roddey: A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership