"Jim Crow's Pink Slip: The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership
AACTE 2023 Gloria J. Ladson-Billings Outstanding Book Award8203Jim Crow8217s Pink Slip exposes the decades-long repercussions of a too-little-known result ofresistance to the Brown v. Board of Education decision: the systematic dismissal of Black educators from public schools. In 1954, the Supreme Court8217s Brown decision ended segregated schooling in the United States, but regrettably, as documented in congressional testimony and transcripts, it also ended the careers of a generation of highly qualified and credentialed Black teachers and principals. In the Deep South and northern border states over the decades following Brown, Black schools were illegally closed and Black educators were displaced en masse. As educational policy and leadership expert Leslie T. Fenwick deftly demonstrates, the effects of these changes stand contrary to the democratic ideals of an integrated society and equal educational opportunity for all students.Jim Crow8217s Pink Slip provides a trenchant
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