Exhibits
The Black Teacher Archive exhibit collection traces the educational, civic, and cultural life of Black teachers across the American South, through journals, archival records, and the stories of the people who built a tradition of learning under extraordinary pressure.
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Their Zeal for Building a Better World
A launching exhibition drawn from over hundreds of digitized journals of Colored Teachers Associations, tracing Black educators' zeal for professional organizing, civic action, and the long fight for educational equality.
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Archive in Blue
A gathering of blue traces from the journals of Colored Teachers Associations, inspired by Imani Perry's Black in Blues, finding the color where it lives in the archive.
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The Educational Life of Elijah P. Marrs and the Formalization of Black Teachers in Kentucky
A window into the educational life of Elijah P. Marrs, enslaved, soldier, and teacher, and the Kentucky Colored Teachers Associations he helped shape in freedom.
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Jeanes Teachers
The Georgia story of over five hundred Jeanes Teachers who built a system inside a system, recovering a sixty-two year legacy of curriculum, community development, and rural Black education that was lost when the program ended in 1970.