#black schools

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PBS' Making Black America: Through the Grapevine (E1)

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Peace & Come Add On

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Class of 1929

A photograph of two members of the class of 1929 Avery Normal Institute, a school established in 1865 for Black Charlestonians in South Carolina. Many Avery graduates went on to teach South Carolina’s African American children. For many years, Avery operated as a normal school, or a teaching school, for black students in the Charleston area.  Avery’s administrative leadership and student body were also politically active throughout the years to push for racial equality and justice.

While Avery closed its doors as a school in 1954, it reopened in th 1980s as the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture.  As such, Avery serves as one of Charleston’s rich archives focusing on African diaspora collections with an emphasis on Charleston and the South Carolina Lowcountry. 

From the Avery Normal Institute Collection at the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture.  

[jhimself]

Black Excellence✊🏾

[reneestjohn05]

Black American Teachers

I was viewing data 📈 for a paper I am writing ,

and I discovered that Black American teachers /Schools statistically refers Black students for gifted testing in very high percentages

Intentionally vague bc if my region and locale

Black teachers do their best to uplift their students . I have witnessed this , and

is the reason why choosing a middle class black school for your black child is important.

Teaching and education also begins in the home. Extended family is an asset 👇🏾❤️

Why is this important?

Bc even if your child does not meet eligibility requirements, they are exposed to the format of the test .

Not to mention , maybe placed in a high achiever’s class bc of their test scores , gifting testing status , etc

Black middle class schools are very important in the education of Black American students ❤️🌸

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[thephenotype]

[profkew]

Seizing Freedom Episode 11: Truth Makes the Free Man

Literacy and formal education were illegal for African Americans in many states during the Civil War. Even following emancipation, when it became legal to learn to read and write publicly, there were often extreme consequences.

Regardless, Black people throughout the United States began to understand the only way they could discover what was being kept from them was to acquire literacy, and they’d stop at nothing to do so.

Listen here or anywhere you podcast

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Historical marker honors Indy school's legacy educating African American children

"The school was the center point for the neighborhood," said Ron Lovett, who attended the school.

For decades, John Hope School No. 26 served as a beacon for all those who attended school and worked there.

"The school was the center point for the neighborhood," said Ron Lovett, an alumni of the school.

It was one of the first public schools for African American students in Indianapolis. Inside, it housed the Paul Laurence Dunbar Library - the first African American library in the city.

Lovett, who attended the school in the 1960s, said the teachers and students coming through the doors were a tight-knit part of the vibrant, close community it served.

"From when it opened in 1920 to when it closed in 1997, it was full of kids, full of life. It was a neighborhood hub for everything until the interstate came through and divided the community," Lovett said. 

"Markers return stories to the historical landscape where they belong," said Casey Pfeiffer, historical marker program director at the Indiana Historical Bureau.