Black History Month – US Represented

To Till a Field or Write a Poem? Booker T. Washington’s Legacy

Biography, Dana Zimbleman, Nonfiction / By Dana Zimbleman

In Honor of Black History Month Twenty-eight years ago, I landed my first full-time college teaching position at Tuskegee University in Alabama. Originally known as Tuskegee Institute, the school was founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881 to provide vocational education for southern blacks in the years after Reconstruction. Washington, born a slave in 1856, […]

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Battleground Schools: The Little Rock Nine and the Fight for Desegregation

In Honor of Black History Month After last week’s horrific mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, it’s tempting to romanticize the past and imagine that obtaining an education was once not as dangerous of a proposition as it is now. However, the young people who led the charge to desegregate