Concerned scholars and educators, since the early 20th century, have asked questions regarding the viability of Black history in k-12 schools. Over the years, w

In 1978, V. P. Franklin and James D. Anderson co-edited New Perspectives on Black Educational History. For Franklin, Anderson, and their contributors, there wer

James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a

When traditionally white public schools in the South became sites of massive resistance in the wake of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision,

Reckoning with History brings together original essays from a diverse group of historians who consider how writing about the past can engage with the urgent iss