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Willing to Sacrifice: Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History, and the Carter G. Woodson Home (book)
By: National Park Service After earning a Ph.D. in history from Harvard University in 1912, Woodson and his colleagues laid the foundations for the rigorous scientific study of African American history. Woodson’s actions, and those of his co-workers, foreshadowed the motto of the National Council of Black Studies, “Academic Excellence, Social Responsibility.” |
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The Mis-Education of the Negro
By: Carter G. Woodson Carter Godwin Woodson's classic and historic work that exposes how American education has been structured to perpetuate racial segregation, as well as disparate impacts in the Black community. |
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed
By: Paulo Freire Freire highlights how the objectification of the oppressed in society, alongside uncritical models of education, results in the internalization of oppression. The oppressed internalize “the image of the oppressor and [adopt] his guidelines,” and become fearful of freedom. |
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Brown v. Board of Education:
Summary, Ruling, & Impact By: The History Channel The history of court-ordered school desegregation in the U.S. |
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Brown, Racial Change, and the Civil Rights Movement
By: Michael J. Klarman This article addresses the impact of World War II on African Americans, the change in southern attitudes about race, the landmark civil rights case Brown vs. Board of Education which desegregated schools, and the impact of civil rights legislation. |
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A School for Basic Education in the Mississippi Delta
By: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee The purpose of this school will be to put the weapon of nonviolence into the hands of the oppressed people of the South, particularly in Mississippi; to restore in people a feeling of their own dignity and worth as human beings and to instill in them a sense of brotherhood with all men; to develop local leaders in every community in Mississippi and to build a real mass movement by giving to each individual a sense of his own role in the struggle; and through all this to build an integrated ·society that will ultimately lead to the "beloved community.” |
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Proposal for a Freedom Education Program
By: Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) CORE’s proposal to create Freedom Schools to improve students’ academic performance expose students to cultural subjects not taught I school. Freedom Schools would teach children subjects deemed too controversial for regular schools (i.e. Black history, civil rights). |
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No Freedom in School
By: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Students boycott public schools, after the all-white school board bans them from wearing SNCC pins. Churches organize local schools for the students. |
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School Desegregation: Old Problems Under a New Law
By: Southern Regional Council A report on the failures of school desegregation, including the Department of Education’s difficulty in implementing compliance with the law and the process of battling school segregation in court. |
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Black Parents’ Racial Socialization Practices and their Children’s Educational Outcomes
By: Dr. Rashidah Bowen White The history of school desegregation, and how to help Black children thrive in a society in which they are discriminated against on the basis of race. |
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Voices from the South
By: Betsy Fancher Black students discuss the trauma of attending integrated schools with white children. |
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Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (documentary)
Directed by: Stanley Nelson and Marco Williams A haven for Black intellectuals, artists, and revolutionaries, historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU’s) have educated the architects of freedom movements and cultivated leaders in every field while remaining unapologetically Black for more than 150 years. |
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The Black Campus Movement: Black Students and the Racial Reconstitution of Higher Education, 1965-1972
By: Ibram H. Rogers Between 1965 and 1972, African American college students organized, demanded, and protested for Black Studies, Black universities, new faces, new ideas--a relevant, diverse higher education. Black power inspired these Black students, who were supported by white, Latino, Asian American, and Native American students. The Black Campus Movement provides the first national study of this struggle which disrupted and refashioned institutions in almost every state. This book also illuminates the complex context for one of the most transformative educational movements in American history through a history of Black higher education and Black student activism before 1965. |
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My Soul’s Been Anchored: Tradition & Disruptive Imagining in Historically Black Education
By: Rashad Raymond Moore The project draws on digital archival research to answer the central question: How can education empower students to resist the nihilism and despair resulting from continued racial oppression and instead look to the future with hope and imagination? |
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HBCU Federal and State Policy Scan Brief
By: The Hunt Institute The history of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), their success in boosting the U.S. economy, and the challenges HBCU’s face in achieving resources equal to predominantly white institutions (PWIs). |
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Not Your Average Brotha: Examining Educational Lives, Literacies and Masculinities of Black Males
By: Crystal Belle These key findings reveal that the intersections between race, masculinities and literacies play a pivotal role in English education while challenging some of the current research in the field and can have transformative implications for researchers, policy makers and practitioners as reflected throughout the data and analysis. |
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Black Students Who Have One Black Teacher Are More Likely to Go To College
By: Jill Rosen Positive outcomes sparked by same-race role models can last into adulthood and potentially shrink educational attainment gap, study finds. |
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Critical Race Theory: A Brief History
By: Malik Simba Legal scholar Malik Simba explains the development of Critical Race Theory, the legal concept that has now become one of the most hotly debated topics in the ongoing cultural wars in the United States between political conservatives and political liberals. The current debate focuses on whether Critical Race Theory is or should be taught in public schools. Professor Simba, however, weighs in on the concept’s history, showing that it was never intended to be a teaching tool in the public schools of the United States. |
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Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies
Edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D.G. Kelley, et al. Black Studies is under relentless attack by social and political forces seeking to discredit and neutralize it. This book was born out of an urgent need to respond to the latest threat: efforts to remove content from an Advanced Placement (AP) African American Studies course being piloted in high schools across the United States. This book brings together canonical texts and authors in Black Studies, including those excised from or not included in the AP curriculum |
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