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  2. African-American teachers - Wikipedia

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    An African-American teacher. African-American teachers educated African Americans and taught each other to read during slavery in the South. People who were enslaved ran small schools in secret, since teaching those enslaved to read was a crime (see Slave codes). Meanwhile, in the North, African Americans worked alongside Whites. Many ...

  3. Ann Plato - Wikipedia

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    Ann Plato (c. 1823 – unknown) [1] was a 19th-century African American educator and author.She was the second African-American woman to publish a book in the United States and the first to publish a book of essays [1] and poems.

  4. June Jordan - Wikipedia

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    June Millicent Jordan (July 9, 1936 – June 14, 2002) was an American poet, essayist, teacher, and activist. In her writing she explored issues of gender, race, immigration, and representation.

  5. Rosa Dixon Bowser - Wikipedia

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    Rosa L. Dixon Bowser (January 7, 1855 – February 7, 1931) was an American educator.She was the first African-American teacher hired in Richmond, Virginia.She organized the Virginia Teachers' Reading Circle, which became the Virginia State Teachers Association, the first organization representing black teachers in Virginia, serving as the organization's president from 1890 to 1892.

  6. Maria W. Stewart - Wikipedia

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    Maria Stewart was born Maria Miller in 1803 in Hartford, Connecticut, to free African-American parents. In 1806, by the age of three, she lost both parents and was sent to live with a white minister and his family where she worked as an indentured servant until around the age of 15, where she received no formal education.

  7. Why America Needs Ebonics Now - The Huffington Post

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    For instance, every semester, Wheeler gives her students, who are training to become teachers themselves, a sample essay from a 3rd grader. It’s written in African-American Vernacular English—better known as “Ebonics”—and includes phrases like “mama Jeep run out of gas” and “she walk yesterday.”

  8. Elizabeth Jennings Graham - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Jennings Graham (March 1827 – June 5, 1901) was an African-American teacher and civil rights figure. In 1854, Graham insisted on her right to ride on an available New York City streetcar at a time when all such companies were private and most operated segregated cars. Her case was decided in her favor in 1855, and it led to the ...

  9. African-American Baseline Essays - Wikipedia

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    The African-American Baseline Essays are a series of educational materials commissioned in 1987 by the Portland public school district in Portland, Oregon and compiled by Asa Grant Hilliard III, intended to "provide information about the history, culture, and contributions of Africans and African-Americans in the disciplines of Art, Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, and ...