The 74: Can you take us back to the moment when you first learned about this history? The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. What’s more, Fenwick says, current threats over issues such as Critical Race Theory are cut from the same cloth as the threats that Black educators faced post-Brown.ħ4 contributor Greg Toppo spoke with Fenwick, an education policy professor and dean emerita of the School of Education at Howard University, about the Senate hearings, the backlash to Brown and ways to bring Black teachers back into the classroom. Those who had two were 32 percent more likely.

Research shows that this dearth of Black educators has consequences: One 2018 study, for instance, found that Black students who had just one black teacher by third grade were 13 percent more likely to enroll in college. While Black students now represent about 15 percent of K-12 enrollment, just 7 percent of teachers and 11 percent of principals are Black. Board: 65 Years Later, Remembering the Five Unique Lawsuits and Communities That Joined Forces to Persuade the Supreme Court Related The Untold Stories Behind Brown v. It was so pervasive and destabilizing that, even more than half-century later, the nation’s public schools still have not recovered.” public education system that the nation has ever seen. Senate hearings on the topic, writes that the loss of Black educators post- Brown was “the most significant brain drain from the U.S. Fenwick, tapping seldom-seen transcripts from a series of 1971 U.S. In Jim Crow’s Pink Slip, scholar Leslie T. But a new book uncovers a little-known by-product of the case: Educators and policymakers in at least 17 states that operated separate “dual systems” of schools defied the spirit of Brown by closing schools that served Black students and demoting or firing an estimated 100,000 highly credentialed Black principals and teachers. Board of Education decision, which outlawed racial segregation in public schools.

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