Black Educators & The Fight to Learn — Interactive Edition

Black Educators & The Fight to Learn by Carlos L. Young Sr. — Interactive Edition. Volume 7 of the Left Out of the History Books series (The Digital Black Voice). Teaching Black people to read was once a crime — and Black educators did it anyway. This volume profiles 34 of them in chronological order: the jailed teacher Margaret Douglass and John Berry Meachum's floating school; Freedmen's Bureau school builders and HBCU founders Fanny Jackson Coppin, Booker T. Washington, and Mary McLeod Bethune; the Rosenwald and Jeanes era, when Black communities out-raised the Rosenwald Fund to build 5,357 school buildings; Septima Clark's Citizenship Schools; and the documented cost of desegregation for Black teachers. Each entry carries what the school or program concretely did and what survives today. Contested figures are flagged openly. Interactive Edition: 34 profiles, timeline, search, read-aloud, bookmarks, 10-question quiz.