Jim Crow's Pink Slip: The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership

AACTE 2023 Gloria J. Ladson-Billings Outstanding Book Award

Jim Crow’s Pink Slip exposes the decades-long repercussions of a too-little-known result of resistance to the Brown v. Board of Education decision: the systematic dismissal of Black educators from public schools.

In 1954, the Supreme Court’s Brown decision ended segregated schooling in the United States, but regrettably, as documented in congressional testimony and transcripts, it also ended the careers of a generation of highly qu...