TY - JOUR
T1 - “The development of power is the main business of the school”
T2 - The agency of southern black teacher associations from Jim Crow through desegregation
AU - Hale, Jon
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Journal of Negro Education, 2018.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This article provides a history of Black southern teacher associations and the civil rights agenda they articulated from Reconstruction through the desegregation of public schools in the 1970s. Black teacher associations demonstrated historic agency by demanding a fundamental right to an education, equal salaries, and the right to work during the era of desegregation. Black education associations thus served as a professional bulwark against institutional racism. The agency of Black teacher associations constitutes a unique though overlooked role in civil rights history that illustrates the latent potential of teacher associations to serve as bastions of civil rights-based reform initiatives.
AB - This article provides a history of Black southern teacher associations and the civil rights agenda they articulated from Reconstruction through the desegregation of public schools in the 1970s. Black teacher associations demonstrated historic agency by demanding a fundamental right to an education, equal salaries, and the right to work during the era of desegregation. Black education associations thus served as a professional bulwark against institutional racism. The agency of Black teacher associations constitutes a unique though overlooked role in civil rights history that illustrates the latent potential of teacher associations to serve as bastions of civil rights-based reform initiatives.
KW - Civil rights movement
KW - Desegregation
KW - Race and education
KW - Teacher associations
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U2 - 10.7709/jnegroeducation.87.4.0444
DO - 10.7709/jnegroeducation.87.4.0444
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85071617552
SN - 0022-2984
VL - 87
SP - 444
EP - 459
JO - Journal of Negro Education
JF - Journal of Negro Education
IS - 4
ER -