An estimated 38 thousand Black educators and administrators in public schools were fired in the South after the Brown v Board of Education decision in 1954. This episode highlights the rich past of Black education through the research of professor Michele Foster, best known for interviewing Black teachers who taught in the ‘50s. Michele is in conversation with one of her former PhD students, Tryphenia Peele Eady. Resources: Michele Foster, Black Teachers on Teaching https://www.amazon.com/Black-Teachers-Teaching-Press-Education/dp/156584453X Michele Foster, “Why Seek The Living Among the Dead?” African American Pedagogical Excellence: Exemplar Practice for Teacher Education https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323751845_Why_Seek_the_Living_Among_the_Dead_African_American_Pedagogical_Excellence_Exemplar_Practice_for_Teacher_EducationDavid S. Cecelski, Along Freedom Road https://uncpress.org/book/9780807844373/along-freedom-road/ Sonya Ramsey, Reading, Writing, and Segregation: A Century of Black Women Teachers in Nashville https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Sonya-Ramsey/dp/0252032292/ref=sr_1_3?__mk_es_US=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&crid=3D3FS57PY6NZ0&keywords=sonya+ramsey&qid=1646431991&s=books&sprefix=sonya+ramsey%2Cstripbooks%2C73&sr=1-3 Vanessa Siddle Walker, Their Highest Potential, An African American School Community in The Segregated South https://www.amazon.com/Their-Highest-Potential-Community-Segregated/dp/0807845817Vanesaa Siddle Walker, The Lost Education of Horace Tate: Uncovering the Hidden Heroes Who Fought for Justice in SchoolsVanessa Siddel Walker, Hello Professor: A Black Principal and Professional Leadership in the Segregated South https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Education-Horace-Tate-Uncovering/dp/1620971054Gloria Ladson Billings, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Asking a Different Question https://www.amazon.com/Culturally-Relevant-Pedagogy-Sustaining-Pedagogies/dp/0807765910Video of Ruby Foresyth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SSpNj7LdZU&t=174s This podcast is brought to you with the generous support from The Walton Family Foundation. Aimée Eubanks Davis is the host. This series is produced by Priscilla Alabi and Kristen Lepore. Priscilla Alabi is the producer. Kristen Lepore is the supervising producer. Story editing is by Jackie Danziger. Story consulting by Sonya Ramsey. Sound design and mixing by Andrea Kristinsdóttir. Music by Hansdale Hsu. Additional music by Andrea Kristinsdóttir. Additional engineering from Ivan Kuraev. Executive producers are Stephanie Wittles Wachs and Jessica Cordova Kramer. Special Thanks to Liz Thompson, Meredith Moore, Acasia Wilson Feinberg and Maya Thompson. Help others find our show by leaving us a rating and writing a review. To learn more about the 1954 Project and its mission to fund black leaders in education, visit www.1954project.org Stay up to date with us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. Interested in bonus content and behind the scenes material? Subscribe to Lemonada Premium right now in the Apple Podcasts app by clicking on our podcast logo and the "subscribe” button. Stay up-to-date on everything in the Lemonada world by becoming a superfan at https://joinsubtext.com/lemonadasuperfan. Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this and all other Lemonada series: lemonadamedia.com/sponsors.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
