Black History Month

Class Portrait, Virginia, early 1900’s

For Black History Month 2017, we highlighted a place or event from history that involved Black educators or provided a brief bio of a Black educator. Some of these names and stories may be new and some may be familiar. All of them, though, deserve to elevated at every opportunity. (As with all entries, please contact us if anything looks amiss!)

1. Anna Julia Cooper
2. Ambrose Caliver
3. Mary Smith Peake
4. Robert Robinson Taylor
5. Sara G. Stanley
6. Cherry Hill Classroom
7. Charlotte Louise Bridges Forten Grimké
8. “Black Man Reading a Newspaper by Candlelight”
9. Mamie Garvin Fields
10. Charles Henry Thompson
11. Ashburn Colored School
12. Sara Roberts
13. John Chavis
14. Fanny Jackson Coppin
15. Elizabeth Jennings Graham
16. John and Mary Meachum
17. NY African Free School
18. Sarah Louise “Sadie” Delany
19. Edwin Bancroft Henderson
20. Bessie Bruington Burke
21. Birmingham, Alabama – September 15, 1963 
22. Berta Smith
23. Baynard Rustin
24. Elizabeth Duncan Koontz
25. The Two “Colored School No 3” 
26. Ed History and 2017 Oscar Nominees for Best Film
27. Betsey Stockton
28. Black educator displacement after Brown v. Board