Image: From Jarvis R. Givens’ Black Rebellion and the Political Imaginations of African American Teachers.

Books: Historical

James D. Anderson: The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935.

Kabria Baumgartner: In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America.

John Frederick Bell: Degrees of Equality: Abolitionist Colleges and the Politics of Race.

Dionne Danns: Desegregating Chicago’s Public Schools: Policy Implementation, Politics, and Protest, 1965–1985.

Dionne Danns, Michelle A. Purdy, & Christopher M. Span (editors): Using Past as Prologue: Contemporary Perspectives on African American Educational History.

Jack Dougherty: More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee.

W.E.B. Du Bois: The Education of Black People: Ten Critiques, 1906 – 1960.

Eddie R. Cole: The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom.

Ansley T. Erickson & Ernest Morrell (editors): Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community.

Stephanie Y. Evans: Black Women in the Ivory Tower, 1850-1954: An Intellectual History.

Jarvis R. Givens: Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching.

Jon Hale: The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement.

Karen Johnson: Uplifting the women and the race : the educational philosophies and social activism of Anna Julia Cooper and Nannie Helen Burroughs.

Tondra L. Loder-Jackson: Schoolhouse Activists: African American Educators and the Long Birmingham Civil Rights Movement.

Audrey McCluskey: A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South.

Hilary J. Moss: Schooling Citizens: The Struggle for African American Education in Antebellum America.

Charles M. Payne & Carol Sills Strickland (editors): Teach Freedom: Education for Liberation in the African-American Tradition.

Michelle A. Purdy: Transforming the Elite: Black Students and the Desegregation of Private Schools.

Russell Rickford: We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination.

Elizabeth Todd-Breland: A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s.

Crystal R. Sanders: A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi’s Black Freedom Struggle.

Vanessa Siddle Walker:

• The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in Schools.
• Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South.
• Hello Professor: A Black Principal and Professional Leadership in the Segregated South.

Heather Andrea Williams: Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom.

Carter G. Woodson: The Mis-Education of the Negro.

Books: Contemporary

Christopher P. Chatmon, Jarvis R. Givens, & Na’ilah Suad Nasir (editors): “We Dare Say Love”: Supporting Achievement in the Educational Life of Black Boys.

Venus E. Evans-Winters: Teaching Black Girls: Resiliency in Urban Classrooms.

Bettina Love & Venus E. Evans-Winters: Black Feminism in Education: Black Women Speak Back, Up, and Out.

Jesse Hagopian & Denisha Jones (editors): Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice.

Jesse Hagopian & Dyan Watson (editors): Teaching for Black Lives.

Gloria Ladson-Billings: The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children.

Keisha Lindsay: In a Classroom of Their Own: The Intersection of Race and Feminist Politics in All-Black Male Schools.

Bettina Love: We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom.

Monique W. Morris: Sing a Rhythm, Dance a Blues: Education for the Liberation of Black and Brown Girls.

Freeden Blume Oeur: Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools.

Beverly Daniel Tatum:

• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race.
• Can We Talk about Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation.

Vajra M. Watson: Transformative Schooling: Towards Racial Equity in Education.

Articles

Derrick P. Alridge: On Education and African American Intellectual History.

H. Samy Alim & Django Paris: Centering and Sustaining Us through Education.

Gloria Ashaolu: The Countercurriculum of Black Education.

Toni Cade Bambara: Realizing the Dream of a Black University.

Kabria Baumgartner (interviewed): In Pursuit of Knowledge: A New Book about Black Women’s Educational Activism.

Richard D. Benson II:

• “Ain’t No Rest for the Weary:” Continuing the Historical Legacy of Educational Praxis and Advocacy for Black Youth.
• Black Power, Education, and the History of the Peoples College.

Ronald E. Butchart: “Outthinking and Outflanking the Owners of the World”: A Historiography of the African American Struggle for Education.

Andrene Castro: The Activist Work of K-12 Educators: Then and Now.

Joanne Gavin: Answers to Jon Hale’s Freedom School Questionnaire, 2008.

Jarvis R. Givens:

• Corporate Imperialism vs. Black (Educational) Liberation.
• Black Rebellion and the Political Imaginations of African American Teachers.
• What’s Missing From the Discourse About Anti-racist Teaching: Black educators have always known that their students are living in an anti-Black world and that their teaching must be set against the very order of that world.

Reena Goldthree: Prefiguring the African American “Postcolony”: Black Independent Schools and the Quest for Liberation.

Lindsey E. Jones: Why Black Teachers Matter.

Audre Lorde: “I Teach Myself In Outline,” Notes, Journals, Syllabi.

Raven Moses: Charter Schools and the Black Independent School Movement.

Nadrea Njoku: The Education of Black Boys.

Organization of American Historians: History for Black Lives.

Christopher F. Petrella: Resurrecting the Radical Pedagogy of the Black Panther Party.

Lavelle Porter: The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Elizabeth Todd-Breland: How Karen Lewis’ own story follows the arc of Chicago’s contentious education history.

Crystal R. Sanders: Unita Blackwell’s Legacy of Educational Activism Lives On.

Vanessa Siddle Walker: Telling the untold stories of school integration: An interview with Vanessa Siddle Walker.

Dyan Watson:

• Doing Race Talk with Teachers: How to stay in the conversation.
• Black Boys in White Spaces: One Mom’s Reflection.
• A Message from a Black Mom to Her Son.
• See more from Dyan Watson here.

Heather Andrea Williams: The Oppressor’s Bookshelf: As formerly enslaved Americans battled to become literate, the only books available to them were written by white supremacists and condescending abolitionists.