This year’s annual convention for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History is being held in Buffalo to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Niagara Movement. Professor Kim is there and she is live blogging with audio posts. Particularly interesting was the interview with Dr. Gwendolyn Webb-Johnson concerning her work on [...]
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A Tale Of Two Parishes
SCHOOL OPENINGS [as of 9/26/05] ORLEANS PARISH Public: Some schools may reopen late this year or early next year Teachers and other public school employees can pick up their checks at any Western Union office in the country JEFFFERSON PARISH Public: Oct. 3 target date for some schools Ecole Classique to open Oct. 3. Call [...]
While Americans Are Talking More Openly About Race And Class
There are two posts from the last week that I found particularly moving and important. Neither Jeanne D’Arc nor Kim Pearson are new to such writing. They are both writers with impressive range, but it just so happened that they each wrote compelling, personal posts about their own experiences on the same day. I think [...]
Allegations About Dr. King During Hearings on the Public Accommodations Bill and the Administration’s Response: July 1963
Allegations of Communist influence in the civil rights movement were widely publicized in the summer of 1963 by opponents of the administration’s proposed public accommodations bill. On July 12, 1963, Governor Ross E. Barnett of Mississippi testified before the Senate Commerce Committee that civil rights legislation was “a part of the world Communist conspiracy to [...]
Mini FAQ: Georgia Commission On Education
If you examine the fine print at the bottom right of the MLK smear flier included in yesterday’s post, you’ll find the words “Reprint from Georgia Commission On Education.” What was the Georgia Commission On Education? On Dec. 10, 1953, the state of Georgia established the Commission by a joint resolution of the Georgia General [...]
Ja’eisha Scott Update: Officers Let Off Easy, Cover-up Of School Responsibility Continues
Yesterday, the St. Petersburg, FL Police Department issued a report concerning the allegations that Officers Mark Williams and Nicholas Lazzari were guilty of “Inefficiency / Conduct Unbecoming an Employee [CUBE]” when they handcuffed five-year-old Ja’eisha Scott at Fairmount Elementary School last March in St. Petersburg. While the resultant change in police and school policy concerning [...]
Cleophus Hobbs Day
Cleophus Hobbs Day Saturday, June 10, 2006 David Hall Campsite 1 on the Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail Sponsored by the White Hall Village Educational Association Here’s the story: After my trip to Mississippi for the 41st Annual Chaney Goodman Schwerner Memorial, I spent some time in Montgomery, Alabama with Scott B. Smith and [...]
Good Stuff From The Comments
• After I blogged my friend Dana’s memoir piece on her 1999 trip to Auchwitz, she commented to send me over to the website of Peter Cunningham, the photographer whose photo of Dana appears in her article. Peter has spent years photographing musicians and there is a nice link on his site to those pictures. [...]
America vs. Its Young
Youngest Students Most Likely to Be Expelled Preschoolers’ Self-Esteem at Risk, Study Says By Michael Dobbs Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, May 17, 2005; Page A02 Preschools are expelling youngsters at three times the rate of public schools, according to a nationwide study by Yale researchers, prompting concerns that children are being set up for [...]
And So Should This Comment From Sam Friedman
I sent one of my posts on Ja’eisha Scott to the Civil Rights Movement veterans list-serve that I’m on, and Sam Friedman wrote back with the following: I think that it might be useful to tell a story here from my life. Shortly after I began kindergarden in 1947 in school-segregated Washington, DC, as a [...]
This Ought To Be Part Of Discussions Of The Ja’eisha Scott Case
You know, when they start saying knee-jerk stuff about how the problem is Inga Akins’ parenting of Ja’eisha. Tying such dire predictions of social decay to divorce and single motherhood seemed credible in the 1970s and 1980s. But a funny thing happened in the 1990s: Almost every negative social trend tracked by the census, the [...]
Stop The Schoolhouse To Jailhouse Track
Between 1992 and 2002, nationwide violent crimes at schools against students aged 12 to18 dropped by 50%. Between 1994 and 2002, the youth arrest rate for violent crimes has declined 47% nationally. From 1974 to 2000, the number of students suspended out-of-school increased from 1.7 million to 3.1 million. Research conducted over the past five [...]
A Couple Of Good Articles On The Criminalization Of Ja’eisha Scott
Even 5-Year-Olds Have Civil Rights By Lester Kenyatta Spence*, AOL BlackVoices columnist I still don’t see how someone can agree with what happened in Florida just because teachers are stuck between a rock and a hard place. But people all over the country are agreeing, and many of them are black people. Black people who [...]
A Little Comparative Analysis From Blackwell Raines
Blackwell Raines left another good comment on Monday, relating the Ja’eisha Scott story to the Jennifer Wilbanks story. [T]he great charters–Constitution, Bill of Rights–of U.S. democracy can’t just be real and consequential for some, and mere half-remembered school history for others. A basic premise in all the talk of government is the dignity of personhood. [...]
And Then There’s That Special Genre Of Purposeful Abuse By Educators
The latest one I’ve heard about was in Queens, NY (via Laurence at Blogging While Black )
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