Schoolhouse activists : African American educators and the long Birmingham civil rights movement / / Tondra L. Loder-Jackson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910797866103321
• Autore: Loder-Jackson Tondra L.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-4384-5862-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (274 p.)
• Disciplina: 370.92
• Soggetti: African American educators; African Americans - Education; Civil rights movements - Alabama - Birmingham
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Activists or Accommodationists? Recasting the Role of African American Educators in the Civil Rights Movement; An Inconclusive Historical Record; Alternative Frameworks; Conventional and Unconventional Activism; Educational Praxis as Activism; Activism and Generational Change; Looking Backward to Move Forward; Part I: Breaking Ground and Laying the Foundation; Chapter 1. Pioneering Black Schools Second to None; Emancipated to Educate; Birmingham Educators and Booker T. Washington: Parallels and Intersections; Booker T. Washington's Campaign to Build Black SchoolsArthur Harold Parker and Birmingham's First Black High School; Carrie Tuggle, Tuggle Institute, and Colored Women's Clubs; Indiana Little: Colored Women's Club Activist and Educator; Founding HBCUS and Normal Schools in Birmingham and Alabama; From an Epic to a Collective Narrative; Chapter 2. Organizing for Educational Equity; The Labyrinth of Black Teachers Associations; State and National Black Teachers Associations; Alabama State Teachers Association; Birmingham's Connection to Black Teachers Associations; Black Educators' Alliance with NAACP and Teachers AssociationsBirmingham Teacher Salary Equalization Campaign; Brief History of the NAACP Birmingham Chapter; Arthur D. Shores: NAACP ; Attorney and Educator; Black Teachers Associations' Support for Birmingham Teacher Salary Equalization Cases; JeffCo Principal William Bolden's Case; JeffCo Teacher Ruby Jackson Gainer's Cases; Emory O. Jackson: From Teacher's Desk to Editor's Chair; Changes on the Horizon; Chapter 3. Supporting the Movement Inside and Outside of the Schoolhouse; Brown and Early Struggles to Integrate Birmingham Schools; Brown's Nine-Year DeferralFred Shuttlesworth and Birmingham Families' School Desegregation Battles; Fred Shuttlesworth's Family's Fight; James Armstrong's Family's Fight; Birmingham Educators' Civil Rights Activism; Activism Outside of the Schoolhouse; Activism inside the Schoolhouse; The Children's Crusade and Black Educators; HBCUs Civil Rights Activism; Miles College's Selective Buying Campaign; Lucius Pitts and HBCU Presidential Activism; Birmingham School Desegregation Actualized: 1963-1983; Four Phases of School Desegregation; "Crossover Teacher" Transfers; Accelerations and Reversals; Brown's Peril and PromisePart II: Transitioning and Forging Ahead; Chapter 4. Relative Activism; The Pre-Civil Rights and Civil Rights Cohorts; National and Local Watersheds; Coming of Age in Birmingham and Alabama; Close-knit Families, Segregated Lives; HBCU Experiences; Activist Trajectory; Direct and Indirect Involvement in Young Adulthood and College; Clandestine Support and Silent Protest during Professional Years; Resistance and Adjustment to Brown Deferred; Student Advocacy in Segregated and Desegregated Schools; Liberatory Education and Pedagogy; Teaching for Liberation; Debunking the Myth of Black Inferiority