ERIC Number: EJ1215923
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 13
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Unearthing and Bequeathing Black Feminist Legacies of "Brown" to a New Generation of Women and Girls
Loder-Jackson, Tondra L.; Christensen, Lois McFadyen; Kelly, Hilton
Journal of Negro Education, v85 n3 p199-211 Sum 2016
This article highlights the overshadowed contributions that Marion Thompson Wright, Ruby Jackson Gainer, and Mamie Phipps Clark made to the landmark "Brown v. Board of Education" case. Arguably, "Brown" would not have materialized without their legal and scholarly activism. Yet their legacies were eclipsed by legendary race men with whom their private and public lives were intertwined. As race women in their own right, they have bequeathed implicitly to successive generations of Black women and girls: more equitable teacher salaries and representation in national teachers associations; greater access to quality early childhood through higher education; a brilliant scholarly foundation of Black educational research; and cautionary lessons about the perennial burden Black women educators shoulder to circumvent their marginalization and invisibility.
Descriptors: School Desegregation, Desegregation Litigation, Females, Womens Education, Feminism, African American Students, Racial Bias, Teacher Salaries, Access to Education, Educational Quality, Teacher Competencies, Educational Research, Women Faculty, African American Teachers, Social Science Research, Researchers, Court Litigation
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Brown v Board of Education; Plessy v Ferguson
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