Schoolhouse Activists: African American Educators and the Long Birmingham Civil Rights Movement

Examines the role of African American educators in the Birmingham civil rights movement.

Schoolhouse Activists examines the role that African American educators played in the Birmingham, Alabama, civil rights movement from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Drawing on multiple perspectives from education, history, and sociology, Tondra L. Loder-Jackson revisits longstanding debates about whether these educators were friends or foes of the civil rights movement. She also uses Bla...