Harlem’s Education Movements: Changing the Civil Rights Narrative

FAIN: ES-288136-22

New York Public Library (New York, NY 10016-0109)
Brian Jones (Project Director: February 2022 to March 2025)
Ansley T. Erickson (Co Project Director: February 2022 to March 2025)

A two-week, Level II combined format institute for 25 K-12 educators on the history of efforts to secure equitable access to education in Harlem throughout the twentieth century.

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library, in partnership with Teachers College, Columbia University, requests support for a Level II two-week combined summer institute titled, “Harlem’s Education Movements: Changing the Civil Rights Narrative.” Through scholarly presentations, dialogue with movement veterans, place-based pedagogy, and guided exploration of the Schomburg Center’s unique archival collections, this two-week institute will provide twenty-five teachers of grades 6-12 with an opportunity to learn about the history of Black people’s efforts to secure access to and equity in schools and other educational institutions in Harlem from the 1930s through the 1970s.

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