Lessons for today from the overlooked stories of Black teachers during the segregated civil rights era
- Written by Marlee Bunch, Staff K-12 Initiatives, Office of the Chancellor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A Black schoolroom in Mississippi in 1939.Corbis via Getty ImagesMy grandmother’s name was Mrs. Zola Jackson.
As one of the handful of Black teachers in Mississippi during the Jim Crow era of racially segregated public schools, she faced a daunting challenge in providing a first-class education to students considered second-class citizens.
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