Ed Post Conversations

We Had Black Teachers Until Jim Crow Fired Them

Episode Summary

Did you know that 100,000 Black educators were forced out of schools between the 1950s and the 1970s? Leslie Fenwick, dean emerita of Howard University's School of Education and author of Jim Crow's Pink Slip: The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership, recounts the forgotten history of those highly-qualified, dedicated Black teachers and principals.