Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville's Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820375298)

Protest and Pedagogy traces how, and in what ways, high school teachers and students sustained and propelled the Black freedom struggle in Charlottesville, Virginia. It centers the relationship between protest and pedagogy within classrooms and the surrounding community of Charlottesville. The story spotlights the resistance of Black teachers and students in the American high school throughout the nation during the twentieth century. Rather than act simply as passive participants in the Black freedom struggle--or outright opponents--Black high school teachers and their students, this book argues, employed a variety of organizing and protest strategies to make schools and communities more just and equitable spaces. Black teachers' pedagogical approaches in the classroom underpinned protest within and beyond schools. At the same time, Black teacher and student organizing, activism, and protest led to pedagogical reforms in classrooms and schools.

Author: Alexander D. Hyres
ISBN-10: 0820375292
ISBN-13: 9780820375298
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Language: English
Published: 01/15/2026
Pages: 220
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d