From the slave schools of the early 1700s to educational separation under New Deal relief programs, the education of Blacks in New York is studied in the broade
From Caldecott Honor winner Christian Robinson and acclaimed author Renee Watson, comes the inspiring true story of Florence Mills. Born to parents who were bot
James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a
Sweet Land of Liberty is Thomas J. Sugrue’s epic account of the abiding quest for racial equality in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018 “An important contribution to our understanding of how ordinary people found the strength to fight for equality for scho