Generations of students and activists have had to fight for the rights of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities to receive an education at all.
Generations of students and activists have had to fight for the rights of Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities to receive an education at all
It was not until the U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1954 in the Brown v. Board of Education case that racial segregation in public schools was outlawed nationwide.
A 1954 Supreme Court case involving segregation in public schools.
Native and Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island (a name for North and Central America used by various Indigenous peoples of the western hemisphere) have practiced educational pedagogies that center resistance, justice, and equity long before the introduction of Ethnic Studies as a phrase or academic field.
Turtle Island is a name used by some Indigenous peoples for parts or all of North America, with origins in different Indigenous creation stories and traditions.