Explore Black and Latina women’s education advocacy in New York City from from the late 1800s to the present.
Many policies, practices, and ideas are behind school segregation in New York City. Explore them here, with a special focus on one school in Brooklyn.
When you imagine a movement or a protest, what do you see? These primary sources show joy, play, pride, and beauty in Black and Latinx communities and in Disabled people’s communities and help us think about how joy can be political.
For Disabled children in New York City, exclusion and segregation have been common experiences, but people with disabilities, parents, and educators have pushed for change.
In 1964, New York’s schools were highly segregated and unequal. It was ten years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared school segregation to be unconstitutional. But little had changed in New York City classrooms.
Crucial decisions like what students learn, who attends school where, and who teaches: all of these decisions are part of school governance.
