A Different Brown Story

Black Teacher Recruitment to Navajo Reservation BIA Schools During the Desegregation Era

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9735129
AutoresOliver George Tapaha (0009-0001-3633-0592, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL), Khalil Anthony Johnson (Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT), Marcus N Tanner (0000-0003-4132-9171, University of Nevada, Reno, NV), Nathan Tanner (University of Nevada, Reno), Terah T Venzant Chambers (0000-0002-2240-7018, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI), Terah Venzant Chambers (Michigan State University, autor correspondente)
Ano2026
Data de publicação2026-01-12
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEducational Researcher (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0013-189X • E-ISSN: 1935-102X
EditoraAmerican Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3102/0013189x251413571
OpenAlexW7123351346
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas15

The 70th anniversary of the Brown decision provides an opportunity to shed light on the story of Black educators who were recruited to schools on the Navajo Nation after being fired in the transition to desegregated schooling. With the support of the Navajo Tribal Council, the 1954 Navajo Emergency Education Program established funds to create additional schools throughout the Navajo Nation. Contacted through Black newspaper and magazine advertisements and direct recruitment, hundreds of Black teachers, displaced from schools throughout the South, ended up at schools like Chinle Boarding School. We share one former student’s story and contextualize it within the broader Brown historiography

Black male · Desegregation · Navajo · Newspaper · Nomination · Reservation · West virginia · Critical Race Theory in Education · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Race, History, and American Society