The percentage of African American educators in the U.S. has declined over the past 65 years while the public school populations have become more diverse. Reasons for this decline are posited from a review of the literature, including "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas," and the expanded opportunities for African Americans…

The authors present findings from an oral history of the all-Black Douglass School, which existed in Parsons, Kansas from 1908-1958. The oral history of the school is significant for several reasons: (a) it adds to our understanding of segregated schools outside the South and northern urban centers, (b) the school was razed in 1962, and very…

Oral (or "public") Black history projects can create forms of historiography that effectively bridge the gap between textbook generalities and the living traditions of community social life. (Author/GC)

Discusses advantages, limitations, and techniques of oral history and suggests the method's usefulness for educational research. Provides a brief bibliography of works dealing with oral history and of books that have employed the method to the study of the early Afro-American experience. (GC)

Examines the language of race in a rural, primarily African-American town in North Carolina, focusing on the Civil War, social interactions, school before desegregation, the closing of the town's elementary school, and school dropouts. The roles of repression and denial in socializing talk about racially charged issues are illustrated. (SLD)

Explains how land conditions and local land ownership patterns have contributed to the educational change that left a rural, primarily African-American town in North Carolina without its own school. The town's history, largely interpreted by one elderly African-American man, shows how economic structures have evolved over the past century. (SLD)