Schooling the Movement: The Activism of Southern Black Educators

Available from the University of South Carolina Press.

Published May 2023.

The Activism of Southern Black Educators from Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Era

Edited by Derrick P. Alridge, Jon N. Hale, and Tondra L. Loder-Jackson

By illuminating teachers’ activism during the long civil rights movement, the editors and contributors connect the past with the present, contextualizing teachers’ [in large part women] long-standing role as advocates for social justice. The contributors broaden our conceptions of what it meant to actively take part in or contribute to the civil rights movement.