Author and education expert Vanessa Siddle Walker discusses the historical significance of desegregation, specifically looking at the way, prior to the "Brown vs. The Board of Education" ruling, that black educators worked to create an aspirational environment for their students and toiled behind the scenes to gain them access and…

This article resurrects the perspectives of Black educators using the Georgia Teachers Education Association (GTEA) as a case study to explore the issues these educators sought to have engaged by the nation and other public educational advocates during the desegregation period from 1968 to 1970. It utilizes an historical ethnographic lens applied…

This research sought to extend the historical record of advocacy for Black education by exploring the role of Black educators in the decades before the "Brown v. Board of Education" decision. It addressed (a) the ways the educators were involved in advocating for Black schools and (b) the relationship of the activities to the more…

This article provides a thematic overview of the ways in which black educators, through their professional associations, advocated to create equality of schooling for black children in the pre-"Brown" era. In the struggle for socially just education, Black educators are historically depicted as reluctant participants or employees worried…

In this essay, Vanessa Siddle Walker invokes the voices of black educators who challenged the diluted and failed vision for an integrated South after the 1954 "Brown v. Board of Education" decision mandating school desegregation. Through collaboration and activism, these educators fought against the second-class integration implemented…