In this paper, the authors draw on interview and observational data generated with Black teachers at a public high school in the Black Belt to describe resistance. This work is situated in prior theorizing about pedagogies of resistance (Jaramillo and Carreon, 2014; Patel, 2016; Love, 2019; Givens, 2021) to describe how teachers resisted through…

The establishment of new school districts in predominantly White municipalities in the South is restructuring school and housing segregation in impacted countywide school systems. This article compares the contribution of school district boundaries to school and residential segregation in the Southern counties that experienced secession since…

Guided by the principles of critical race theory, we sought to understand how race and racism help explain differences in White and Black students' assessments of race relations on a predominantly White college campus. The authors employed data from a campus-wide survey conducted in Spring 2013 at the University of Alabama; the sample numbered…

Historically, Christian colleges and universities have struggled to incorporate racial and ethnic diversity into White and homogenous campuses. Research indicates that a positive racial climate is essential to promote spiritual growth for students from diverse backgrounds. As a result, diversity is a compelling interest for Christian institutions.…

Drawing on scholarship from the politics and history of education, narrative and archival data, and the author's emic perspectives, this article examines social and political transformations in the Birmingham City Schools (BCS) and some of the surrounding metropolitan school districts during the pre- and post-classical phases of the American civil…

This article discusses a youth travel program to honor the civil-rights leaders. The trip was composed mostly of Vanderbilt University students, who organized the Freedom Rides. The planned weekend trip was designed to challenge, to inspire, and to encourage a new generation of students to work for social and political change. Furthermore, this…

The present study (n = 761, 58.1% female) examined whether or not individual learner variables (gender, ethnicity, SES) contribute to differences in mathematics performance as measured by test score and mathematics grade for fifth and sixth grade mathematics students in Alabama. Multiple regression analysis revealed that gender and SES show…

When Morris Dees was a young man in Alabama, the law said that black people couldn't drink from the same water fountain as white people, or sit at the same lunch counter. Back then, the government created and sanctioned divisions between human beings. The Civil Rights Movement changed all of that, of course, and ended state-mandated apartheid in…

A look at one educational institution's search for validated and meaningful programing modes and constructs to strengthen the black communities of the nation. (Author)

News briefs relating to misinformation on racial conflict in Boston; a drive for impeachment of an Indianapolis judge who ordered the implementation of a new desegregation for the city; slavery in Florida; protection for Arizona Indians from the floods; the coming into the limelight of Miles College, Birmingham, Ala.; and other. (RJ)

Concludes that when and if a coalition of rural working people and students coalesce around a black, grassroots agenda, a new political history will begin for Tuskegee, for Macon County and perhaps for the entire "Black Belt South". (Author/AM)

Discusses Theodore Rosengarten's "All God's Dangers" (Knopf, 1974), "an oral memoir of a Black tenant farmer who participated in the Alabama Sharecroppers Union," which is the most celebrated product of the oral history movement that accompanied the rise of the New Left in the United States." (Author/JM)

Describes the experiences of an organizational training workshop conducted for the staff of a reconstituted school, i.e. a school which had been reorganized in terms of personnel, grade patterns, instructional patterns, and student bodies as a result of the desegregation process. (Author/JM)

The effectiveness of organizations for citizen participation in school affairs depends on their influence in effecting school policies and decisions, and on their stability for sustained influence. In Atlanta, neither citizen initiated (Southern Leadership Conference) nor school initiated (Committee of 100) system-wide mechanisms have been very…

Discusses literary representations of Scottsboro. Notes that "the content of the extensive literature of Scottsboro changed dramatically, reflecting the radicalism of the 1930's, the cold-war liberalism of the 1950's, and the vacillations of the late 1960's early 70's. (Author/JM)