Black Education Timeline

The history of African American education is both a part of the history of education in the United States and, simultaneously, apart from the broader story of American schooling. This is especially the case when considering the long history of legal exclusion from public schooling and then racially segregated schooling experiences by black people, as well as the educational traditions they created as a critique of (and alternative to) such anti-black norms in the United States. This timeline reflects this distinguishable experience in education through the highlighting of significant events, cases, institutions, and organizations related to Black education.