Table of Contents
Foreword Opal Tometi xi
Introduction
Chapter 1 Making Black Lives Matter at School Jesse Hagopian 1
Chapter 2 Black Lives Matter at School: Historical Perspectives Brian Jones 25
Feature: How One Elementary School Sparked a Movement to Make Black Students' Lives Matter Wayne Au Jesse Hagopian 33
The Start of a Movement
Chapter 3 From Philly with Love: Black Lives Matter at School Goes National Tamara Anderson 49
Chapter 4 Organizing the National Curriculum Christopher Rogers 57
Chapter 5 MapSO Freedom School and the Statewide and National Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action Organizing Awo Okaikor Aryee-Price 63
Feature: Letter in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter at School 72
Securing Union Support: Successes and Struggles
Chapter 6 Black Lives Matter to the Chicago Teachers Union: An Interview with Jennifer Johnson 79
Chapter 7 Pushing Our Union to Do Antiracist Work: Los Angeles Teachers Union Tackles Racial Justice Cecily Myart-Cruz Erika Jones 90
Feature: Sample Union Endorsements 95
Chapter 8 The Struggle for Union Support in New York City: An Interview with Myrie 102
Chapter 9 Successes and Challenges Garnering State and Local Union Support in Howard County, Maryland: Art Interview with Erika Strauss Chavarria 107
Chapter 10 Seattle Educators' Lesson Plan for City Officials: Defund the Police and Spend the Money on Social Programs and Education! Jesse Hagopian 113
Feature: Defending the Boston Teachers Union from the Boston Police 122
Educators Doing the Work
Chapter 11 Our Schools Need Abolitionists, Not Reformers Bettina L. Love 131
Chapter 12 NYC Teachers Bring the Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action to the Early Years Laleña Garcia Rosy Clark 134
Feature: How to Talk to Young Children about the Black Lives Matter Guiding Principles Laleña Garcia 140
Chapter 13 Bringing the Team Along: When Solidarity Leads to Progress Makai Kellogg 145
Chapter 14 Centering the Youngest Black Children: An Interview with Takiema Bunche-Smith 150
Chapter 15 Organizing the Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action in New Jersey: An Interview with Raquel James-Goodman 158
Chapter 16 This Is My Education: Bringing the Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action to an African American Immersion School in Milwaukee Angela Harris 167
Feature: Frequently Asked Questions about the Week of Action 175
Chapter 17 Higher Education Organizing for the Week of Action: An Interview with Anthony Dandridge Kiersten Greene 183
Chapter 18 White Educators for Black Lives Rosie Frascella B. Kaiser Brian Ford Jeff Stone 188
Feature: Solidarity with Migrant Families at the Border 193
Chapter 19 The Week of Action Goes from Philadelphia Schools to Higher Education: An Interview with Dana Morrison 196
Chapter 20 The Black Lives Matter at School Pedagogy: Affirming Black Lives, Resisting Neoliberal Reform, and Reimagining Education for Liberation Denisha Jones 200
Chapter 21 Black Lives Matter at School Year of Purpose Statement 208
Feature: Not Just in February! Reflection Questions to Make Black Lives Matter Every Day in Your Classroom Awo Okaikor Aryee-Price Maria C. Fernandez Christopher Rogers 214
Chapter 22 Hire More Black Teachers Now: A Research Statement from Black Lives Matter at School and Journey for Justice 219
Voices of Students
Chapter 23 They Don't Know the Half Kalani Rossman 229
Chapter 24 "Tearing It Down and Rebuilding": An Interview with Student Activist Marshé Doss 232
Chapter 25 Minneapolis Public Schools Expel the Police! An Interview with Student Leader Nathaniel Genene 242
Chapter 26 "Living in a Future of Success": An Interview with Student Activist Israel Presley on Organizing for the Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action 248
Chapter 27 Students Deserve: The Organizing Work of a Grassroots Coalition 255
Chapter 28 Montpelier High School Racial Justice Alliance Statement to the School Board 261
Chapter 29 "It Will Stay Up until Institutional Racism Is Over": Raising the Black Lives Matter Flag at Montpelier High School; An Interview with Student Activist Noel Riby-Williams 263
Chapter 30 Black Lives Matter Student Creative Challenge 2020 Submissions 269
Epilogue
Inequity and COVID-19 Jesse Hagopian 274
Contributors 278
Notes 293
Index 304
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