Foreword: Migration of Black Scholars to Higher Education: Building Communities of Resistance through Mentorship

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4 | BLACK HISTORY BULLETIN VOL. 81, NO. 2 81 No.2 LA VONNE I. NEAL, Ph.D., is Associate Vice President--Administration & Finance and Professor of Special Education at Northern Illinois University; Email: lneal1@niu.edu ALICIA L. MOORE, Ph.D., holds the Cargill Endowed Professorship in Education at Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas; Email: moorea@southwestern.edu FOREWORD: MIGRATION OF BLACK SCHOLARS TO HIGHER EDUCATION: BUILDING COMMUNITIES OF RESISTANCE THROUGH MENTORSHIP By Alicia L. Moore & La Vonne I. Neal The guest editor for this Black History Bulletin issue, Dr. Greg Wiggan, answered the call to “link to collective struggle through mentorship in the context of a community of resistance.”1 His “community of resistance” is comprised of university professors and doctoral students who transitioned to teaching at universities from roles as public school teachers and administrators. To celebrate the theme of this BHB issue—Black migrations—the authors collaborated withWiggan to write articles that illuminate the complexities of Black migrations and urban realities. With the ease of collaborative networks, their articles flow from topics such as political and economic instability to music as a platform for political communication. Additionally, their companion lesson plans incorporate (1) the 400 Years of African-American History Commission Act (H.R. 1242), established to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of the arrival of Africans in the English colonies in 1619, (2) geopolitical terms such as migration, immigration, refugee, undocumented, and citizenship, (3) education frameworks—counterspace pedagogy, (4) AfroCaribbean immigrants, (5) hip-hop as a pedagogical tool, (6) pre-Columbus Black migration, and (7) DACA. Enjoy the synergy of the articles and historical photographs throughout this issue that depict Black migrations and social mobility! Notes: 1 La Vonne I. Neal, Sarah Militz-Frielink, Alicia L. Moore, Karina Avila, Maria Colompos, and Shanell Walter, Borders, Bras and Battles: A Practical Guide to Mentor Undergraduate Women to Achieve Career Success (Baltimore, MD: Apprentice House, 2016), 3. Teacher Resources: • Legislation: H.R. 1242—400 Years of African-American History Commission Act: - Committees: House-Oversight and Government Reform - Committee Report: H. Rept. 115-105 - Latest Action: 01/08/2018 Became Public Law No. 115102 https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1242 - “The commission must: o Plan programs to acknowledge the impact that slavery and laws that enforced racial discrimination had on the United States; o Encourage civic, patriotic, historical, educational, artistic, religious, and economic organizations to organize and participate in anniversary activities; o Assist states, localities, and nonprofit organizations to further the commemoration; and o Coordinate for the public scholarly research on the arrival of Africans in the United States and their contributions to this country.” • Books: – Carter G. Woodson, A Century of Negro Migration (Washington, DC: ASNLH, 1918; repr. Russell, 1969). E185.9.W89. – Carter G. Woodson, The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861: A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States From the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War (New York: Putnam’s, 1915; repr. Ayer, 1968). LC2741.W7. – La Vonne I. Neal, Sarah Militz-Frielink, Alicia L. Moore, Karina Avila, Maria Colompos, and Shanell Walter, Borders, Bras and Battles: A Practical Guide to Mentor Undergraduate Women to Achieve Career Success (Baltimore, MD: Apprentice House, 2016). – Greg Wiggan, Lakia Scott, Marcia Watson, and Richard Reynolds, Unshackled: Education for Freedom, Student Achievement, and Personal Emancipation (Rotterdam, Netherlands: SensePublishers, 2014). • DVD: Freedom’s Song: 100 Years of African American Struggle and Triumph Ten episodes, one for each decade of the twentieth century, highlight stories in African American history from the twentieth century that have been either omitted from or marginally discussed in history textbooks to date. A minibiography follows each decade’s story to highlight the life of a significant historical figure of the decade. Segments are accompanied by individual lesson plans. http://www.worldcat.org/title/freedoms-song-100-years-ofafrican -american-struggle-and-triumph/oclc/67243974 ...