“LEARN BABY LEARN SO YOU CAN EARN BABY EARN”

This week’s Black Reality Think Tank discussion is centered around educating black children before the landmark Brown case.  How were black children educated during Jim Crow?  Who educated them? What type of curriculum was used and who was its designer?  Did it work?  Did the Brown case kill Jim Crow or did it install a new form of Jim Crow?  Today’s discussion is a two-part series that will focus first on a community of folk educated in a Jim Crow environment. Our guest will be Ms. Jewell Merritt Johnson, Ms. Marie Simmons and Rev. Michael Rogers who were all educated in a Jim Crow environment but have worked in a post-Brown environment.   The second discussion will examine the principles and philosophy of educating Black children in a Jim Crow environment versus educating Black children in an environment of racial integration. 

The goal and objective of the Black Reality Think Tank is to understand the past, dissect the present and support implementing a meaningful future.