This impressive volume changes our understanding of the multidimensional roles Black educators played in advancing past and present movements for social change."-V.
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. 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.
They have been accused of standing on the sidelines as their students and community members organized protests challenging racially discriminatory practices in southern society. "African American educators have been given a bad rap in much of the literature on the civil rights movement.
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