4:15 pm - Video presentation and oral histories (also available for advanced viewing at your leisure below)
5:00 pm - Live panel discussion and Q&A
In a segregated New York City of the 1930s, as a young Black woman Mildred L. Johnson found herself unable to secure the teaching job she wanted. Undeterred, she went on to imagine and built a progressive, affirming, Black independent school, called The Modern School, which operated for more than 60 years in Harlem's Sugar Hill.
Panelists:
- Khadijah Akeem, Masters Student, History and Education, Teachers College
- Melanie Edwards, Daughter of Modern School Founder Mildred L. Johnson
- Ansley Erickson, Associate Professor of History and Education Policy and Co-Director, Center on History and Education
- Deidre B. Flowers '17, A’Lelia Bundles Scholar at Columbia University
- Nicole Furlonge, Klingenstein Family Chair Professor of Practice and Director of Klingenstein Center, Teachers College
- Karen D. Taylor, Founder and Executive Director, While We Are Still Here
