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Leslie T. Fenwick
Jim Crow’s Pink Slip exposes the decades-long repercussions of a too-little-known result of resistance to the Brown v. Board of Education decision: the systematic dismissal of Black educators from public schools.
The Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 Brown decision ended segregated schooling in the United States, but regrettably, 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 closed and Black educators were uniformly displaced.
By engaging with the complicated legacy of the Brown decision, Leslie T. Fenwick sheds light on a crucial chapter in education history. She also offers policy prescriptions aimed at correcting the course of US education, supporting educators, and improving workforce quality and diversity.
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“A must-read for anyone who cares about our country and its public education system.”
— Lynn Gangone, president and CEO, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)
“In this powerful analytic merging of history, policy and practice, Fenwick engages issues of race, whiteness, and privilege (and as subtext, may make a case for reparations) as she conceptualizes how structures and systems have been developed to maintain segregation and an inequitable status quo.”
— H. Richard Milner, IV, Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Education, Vanderbilt University
“If the pipeline of African American principals and teachers had been retained following the Brown v. Board of Education decision, would today’s reality be different? Jim Crow’s Pink Slip suggests it would be.”
— Carlos Santiago, Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Higher Education
“Every educator, scholar, practitioner, community member, and policymaker concerned about racial justice inside and outside of education should read this book! This book teaches as it truth-tells.”
— H. Richard Milner, IV, Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Education, Vanderbilt University