Unveiling the Role of Black school teachers in the Civil Rights Movement

05/10/2024 59 min

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Episode Synopsis


This episode explores the activism of Black Teachers in the 1950s. When a number of teachers lost their jobs during the desegregation period, they sprang into action triggering the actions of the NAACP. As public education became a highly contested terrain, teachers moved to the forefront in this oft-forgotten chapter of the Civil Rights Movement.