Everyday Resistance Seminar Session Two: Black Reconstructions of America Throughout the Nineteenth Century

Everyday Resistance Seminar: Black Reconstructions of America Throughout the Nineteenth Century

Second Session — The Struggle for Educational Freedom: Wednesday, January 24, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM ET

 $125 Members | $150 Non-Members
Early bird discount available before December 1! Contact the Library Company for details.
(Cost includes all three sessions)

 When one thinks of education in the U.S., some people point to contentious modern debates about curriculum and student experiences as societal “problems”. Others might point to the bravery that African Americans, especially children, demonstrated during modern Civil Rights Movement as they challenged white supremacist laws and social mores as they sought to expand the accessibility of public education. If one were to look back to the nineteenth-century, however, then one might discover that there were numerous racialized, gendered, and classist debates over education date dated back to that period as well. Furthermore, the actions and aspirations to establish racialized and gendered reconstructed society occurred well before Reconstruction.

By incorporating the histories of African Americans throughout the U.S. during the Antebellum and Civil War eras, one can have a more nuanced understanding of how they (especially children) were always fighting their oppressors. Even as white society attempted to impose limits to education, including threatening death to literate enslaved people or free states establishing racially segregated schools to “protect” white children from having to compete with African American children scholastically, African Americans were always fighting to make education truly accessible to the public, regardless of one’s race, gender, class, or status. Throughout this interactive conversation, Dr. Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. will discuss why it is vital to contextualize how these African Americans were not only reconstructing society years before the Reconstruction Era but also asserting how education for all had the potential to create a more inclusive society.

Schedule for Everyday Resistance

Wednesday, January 10 | 6:00-7:30 PM ET

Wednesday, January 24 | 6:00-7:30 PM ET

Wednesday, February 7 | 6:00-7:30 PM ET

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