Givens shows that Woodson succeeded because of the world of Black teachers to which he belonged: Woodson’s first teachers were his formerly enslaved uncles he himself taught for nearly thirty years and he spent his life partnering with educators to transform the lives of Black students.
Woodson-groundbreaking historian, founder of Black History Month, and legendary educator under Jim Crow. There is perhaps no better exemplar of this heritage than Carter G. From slavery through the Jim Crow era, Black people passed down this educational heritage. Teachers developed covert instructional strategies, creative responses to the persistence of White opposition. The enslaved learned to read in spite of widespread prohibitions newly emancipated people braved the dangers of integrating all-White schools and the hardships of building Black schools. They developed what Jarvis Givens calls a tradition of “fugitive pedagogy”-a theory and practice of Black education in America.
African Americans pursued education through clandestine means, often in defiance of law and custom, even under threat of violence. He is also a proud life member and executive council member of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.īlack education was a subversive act from its inception. Professor Givens regularly engages educators, organizations, and communities around the importance of black educational history for our contemporary moment and the critical importance of African American teachers. Phase one of this digital humanities project consists of locating and digitizing a complete collection of journals published by Colored Teachers Associations between the 1920s and 1970. In 2020 he began building The Black Teacher Archive at Harvard in partnership with Professor Imani Perry of Princeton University. The historical questions at the heart of Professor Givens’ research inform practical efforts. As an interdisciplinary scholar, he specializes in 19th and 20th century African American history, history of education, and theories of race and power in education. Givens is an associate professor of education and faculty affiliate in the department of African & African American studies at Harvard University.
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