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The railroad and meatpacking industries recruited Black workers. Chicago's African-American newspaper, the Chicago Defender, made the city well known to southerners. It sent bundles of papers south on the Illinois Central trains, and African-American Pullman Porters would drop them off in Black towns. "Chicago was the most accessible northern ...
Studies consistently show the benefits of teacher-student race/ethnicity matching. Black men make up only 2% of the country's teaching force.
Despite a drop in the number of Black male teachers in the U.S. to 1.3% and a shifting education landscape full of culture wars and safety issues, there’s a new generation of Black men choosing ...
Only 2 percent of teachers in the U.S. are Black men. Educator Mario Jovan Shaw shares how his organization, Profound Gentlemen, is working to empower more men of color in education.
Marva Delores Collins (née Knight; August 31, 1936 – June 24, 2015) was an American educator.Collins is best known for creating Westside Preparatory School, a widely acclaimed private elementary school in the impoverished Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, which opened in 1975.
An African-American teacher. African-American teachers educated African Americans and taught each other to read during slavery in the South. People who were enslaved ran small schools in secret, since teaching those enslaved to read was a crime (see Slave codes). Meanwhile, in the North, African Americans worked alongside Whites. Many ...
A University of Chicago study published in 2006 reported that only one in 40 African-American boys in Chicago Public Schools will eventually graduate from a 4-year university. [4] The Chicago Board of Education approved Urban Prep Academies' charter application in 2005, and Urban Prep opened its first school, Urban Prep Charter Academy for ...
Cornell Ellis, (left) executive director of BLOC, which stands for Brothers Liberating Our Community, visited with science teacher Louis Lowe at De La Salle Education Center, 3737 Troost Ave ...