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Robert Sears was a contributor to The Colored American newspaper. Sears thought that quality of education and quality of life are a part of human rights. Sears believed, "Knowledge is Power". (Muhammad,2019 ,p. 38).
-Amelia, Courtney, Noel, Maya, Megan

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Bethune opened a boarding school, the Daytona Beach Literary and Industrial School for Training Negro Girls. Eventually, Bethune’s school became a college, merging with the all-male Cookman Institute to form Bethune-Cookman College in 1929.

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Her first book, A Voice from the South: By a Black Woman of the South, is widely acknowledged as one of the first articulations of Black feminism, giving Cooper the often-used title of "the Mother of Black Feminism". (Keith)

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W.E.B Du Bois was an author, activist, and educator who fought for equal African American rights after emancipation.  He published many books on the accounts of race and racial differences. He reflects on the methods, purposes, and moral significance of social issues. Du Bois emphasized the legacy of racism and its effects on the lives of Black people.Certain consequences of racism and discrimination were clear - separate aspects of life, physical abuse, paternalism, and individuals being deprived of their rights and privileges. This was shown in a text he published called The Souls of Black Folk.
- Jenn, Kate, Emily G and Jill

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Carter G. Woodson is an author and historian who is known as The Father of Black History. He was the Founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Woodson is remembered for establishing Black History Month and an advocate for Black Americans and their achievements. Woodson wrote The Negro in Our History in 1922 which is a collection of his thoughts presenting the history behind African Americans in the US.

Jenn, Emily Gillen, Jill, and Kate

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15 Demands (Black News) (December 1, 1969)

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15 Demands (Black News) (December 1, 1969)

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Students named and demanded culturally relevant education. Specifically, they demanded systems, structures, curriculum, and instruction that is connected to their lives and the sociopolitical nature of the community. This was a form of literary activism. (Kaitlyn, Allison, Lexi)

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Researches in the historic development of African American literacy, and the creation of literacy materials created specifically for African Americans. She says it was a continuous struggle for African Americans to acquire access to literacy. The struggle was specifically against unrelenting opposition from most segments of society. (Kaitly, Lexi, Allison)

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-examines literacy crisis
-teachers analyzing their own ways of teaching
-4 approaches to literacy
1. academic approach
2. Utilitarian approach
3. Cognitive development approach
4. Romantic approach
-Maya & Meg

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Gonzalez&Moll worked as a partnership to write a book/journal with the purpose to develop innovations in teaching that draw upon student knowledge from their house holds and community, called Funds of Knowledge. Their goal is to link students lived experience to their learning.
-Sarah, Kayla, Kelly, Emily, Chloe

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Gloria Ladson-Billings coined the term "Culturally Relevant Pedagogy" (1995). 

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Culturally Relevant Pedagogy describes a form of teaching that calls for engaging learners whose experiences and cultures are traditionally excluded from mainstream settings. She proposed three components of culturally relevant pedagogy; student learning, cultural competence, and critical consciousness. Using this practice we can empower students not only intellectually but also socially, emotionally, and politically. (Kaitlyn, Lexi, Allison)

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Am American professor, educational researcher, school director and author. She is known for her theory "Cultural Modeling" where she put in efforts to "develop culturally responsive educational systems". She links students' knowledge from their daily lives to their academic learning.
-Sarah, Chloe, Emily, Kelly, Kayla

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Django Paris got his BA in english at California Berkeley. He also received his MA and PHD from Stanford University. Paris is the director of the banks center for educational justice at the university of Washington. Django Paris created a culture-centered theory called culturally sustaining pedagogies. "Seeks to perpetuate and foster- to sustain- linguistic, literate, and cultural pluralism as part of the democratic project of schooling" (Paris, 2012, p.95). CSP builds on decades of crucial asset-based pedagogical research that has countered pervasive deficit approaches to prove that their practices and ways of being as students and communities of color are legitimate and should be included meaningfully in classroom learning. "Teachers were encouraged to incorporate students' cultures into their teaching as assets to classroom instruction rather than deficits to overcome" (Paris 2012).

Names: Emily Girolamo, Kayla Gallagher, Grace Montgomery, Corrine Morales, Megan Hanley

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Black children have been marginalized and treated poorly in schools. "Instruction is largely ahistorical—that is, the ways people of color have excelled in literacy historically are absent from the ways educators engage them in instruction today."(Tatum & Muhammad, 2012)

-Kelly, Emily, Sarah, Kayla, Chloe

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She is a professor of education at the University of Washington-Seattle. She focuses her teaching on teaching future educators about multicultural education and general curriculum theory.  Her theory in Cultivating Genius is called “Culturally Responsive Teaching”.

-Julie Phillips

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Gholdy Muhammad and Marcelle Haddix co-wrote The Multiple Identities and Literacies of Black Girlhood: A
Conversation About Creating Spaces for Black Girl Voices. This article is a Black Feminist article and they discuss the importance of education for black females. The authors draw from personal experience to allow the readers to read first hand about gender construction and the literacy experiences of Black adolescent females.

Jenn, Jill, Emily Gillen, and Kate

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Johnston worked with various partners on showing society the damage of deficit language around language surrounding children of color. For example, at risk, disadvantaged, red group, struggling, etc. "In a statement of culturally responsive education, Johnston, D'Andrea Montalbano & Kirkland (2017) stated: 'The creation and assignment of such labels separates students into those who are alienated from their identities and those alienated from education as useful, unproductive, or likely unsuccessful, and they are further told similar messages of inadequacy and undesirability in media and society" (41).
-Sarah, Kayla, Chloe, Kelly, Emily

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Bettina L. Love is currently a professor at the University of Georgia who started the term "abolitionist teaching". Love attended University of Pittsburgh and Georgia State University. She wrote the books We Want To Do More Than Survive and Hip Hop's Li'l Sistas Speak. Love focuses her knowledge on education reform, anti-racism, carceral studies, abolition, and Black joy. She seeks for educational justice and hopes for new possibilities in the field of education. She quotes, "...our nation's largest school districts are often written and guided by whiteness and lack education that teaches youth to be socially and politically conscious beings..." (pg 40 Cultivating Genius").

Emily Girolamo, Kayla Gallaghar, Grace Montgomery, Megan Hanley, Corrine Morales