For Black History Month 2017, we highlighted a place or event from history that involved Black educators or provided a brief bio of a Black educator. Some of these names and stories may be new and some may be familiar. All of them, though, deserve to elevated at every opportunity. (As with all entries, please contact us if anything looks amiss!)
- Anna Julia Cooper
- Ambrose Caliver
- Mary Smith Peake
- Robert Robinson Taylor
- Sara G. Stanley
- Cherry Hill Classroom
- Charlotte Louise Bridges Forten Grimké
- “Black Man Reading a Newspaper by Candlelight”
- Mamie Garvin Fields
- Charles Henry Thompson
- Ashburn Colored School
- Sara Roberts
- John Chavis
- Fanny Jackson Coppin
- Elizabeth Jennings Graham
- John and Mary Meachum
- NY African Free School
- Sarah Louise “Sadie” Delany
- Edwin Bancroft Henderson
- Bessie Bruington Burke
- Birmingham, Alabama – September 15, 1963
- Berta Smith
- Baynard Rustin
- Elizabeth Duncan Koontz
- The Two “Colored School No 3”
- Ed History and 2017 Oscar Nominees for Best Film
- Betsey Stockton
- Black educator displacement after Brown v. Board
