Sarah Bair offers an alternative method of educating Black children that also promoted self-determination and autonomy. Nannie Helen Burroughs was brought up during the Jim Crow Era where former slaves were facing many barriers created by the state in order to keep them under a evolved version of slavery. Education was the main target as whites barred Black students from attending their schools and maintain segregation. Nannie’s experience in segregated schools is what ultimately influenced her to raise her own money to open up the National Training School for Women and Girls in 1909. Since she was “an advocate for labor causes and working people, Burroughs wanted her students, most of whom would be forced to work outside the home, to be prepared…show more content… Nannie wanted her students to feel empowered about being a womxn while also being Black to motivate them to become productive citizens that were going to positively contribute to their race and their community. She implemented a rich curriculum that offered the students a firsthand experience in direct service, informed them about current events, and taught them Black history to honor their ancestors and to honor their identities. Nannie Burroughs is a great example of how resistance can be intersectional as she dealt with sexism, racism, and poverty while also fighting for the rights of other Black students to be educated. For the final reading by James Anderson and Dara Byrne, I will be focusing on the first chapter of their book, “A Documentary History of Brown,” and how the Brown v. Board case was the ultimate sign of resistance against the racist hegemonic state. The Brown case was in opposition to the Plessy v. Ferguson case that claimed facilities could be separate but equal and this is all under the discretion of the states. The Plessy case, “[gave] rise to the Jim Crow era beginning in the late 1890s when the practices of comprehensive racial segregation emerged, and racial separation became
