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Jim Crow's pink slip : the untold story of black principal and teacher leadership /

Jim Crow's pink slip exposes the decades-long repercussions of the too-little-known result of resistance to the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the systematic dismissal of Black educators from public schools. The Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown decision ended segregated schooling...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fenwick, Leslie T. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2022].
Series:Race and education series.
Subjects:
African American schools > Southern States > History > 20th century.
African American educators > Southern States > History > 20th century.
African American teachers > Southern States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Education > Southern States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by H. Richard Milner IV
  • Preface
  • Who shall lead?
  • The myth of Black professional inferiority
  • Position poaching : the names and circumstances of those purged
  • Litigating Jim Crow desegregation : the struggle to end the decimation
  • Superintendents, the Southern Manifesto, and school choice
  • Implementing Brown without Black principals and teachers
  • The past is ever present
  • Epilogue
  • Glossary.