Black educators Alabama

The story of Black education in Alabama is not a story of waiting to be saved. It is a story of building, protecting, and fighting — generation after generation — for the right of Black children to learn, grow, and thrive. Long before federal civil rights legislation forced open schoolhouse doors, Black Alabamians were creating schools, training teachers, and organizing communities around the transformative power of education. To understand where we are today, and where Black Alabamians for Education (BA4E) is heading, we must understand where we have been. The Pre-Civil Rights Era: Building Education from Nothing After Emancipation, newly freed [...]