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- Title
Ninth Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research: Black Educators as Educational Advocates in the Decades Before Brown v. Board of Education.
- Authors
Walker, Vanessa Siddle
- Abstract
This research sought to extend the historical record of advocacy for Black education by exploring the role of Black educators in the decades before the Brown v. Board of Education decision. It addressed (a) the ways the educators were involved in advocating for Black schools and (b) the relationship of the activities to the more visible accounts of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Answers to the research questions relied on historical ethnography as a methodological tool to analyze the records of the Georgia Teachers and Education Association and the NAACP. Each of these collections was also supplemented by other archival sources and interviews. Results indicate three identifiable periods of advocacy in the years before Brown. In each period, Black educators through their organizations were locally and nationally visible in advocating for education. The results reveal a co-dependent relationship with the NAACP and amplify the importance of a “connector” in establishing congruent national and local advocacy.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BLACK educators; EDUCATION of African Americans; NATIONAL Association for the Advancement of Colored People; BROWN v. Board of Education of Topeka; SOCIAL advocacy; EDUCATIONAL anthropology; EDUCATION &; society; SEGREGATION in education
- Publication
Educational Researcher, 2013, Vol 42, Issue 4, p207
- ISSN
0013-189X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3102/0013189X13490140