- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- SCLC School Tracking Program, circa 1995
- Date of Original:
- 1993/1997
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
African American psychologists
Meetings
African American youth--Education
African Americans--Education - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features a program on school tracking held by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Tracking is a school system in which students are grouped in classes based on academic abilities and test performances. This video opens with educational psychologist Dr. Asa G. Hilliard (also known as Nana Baffour Amankwatia II) speaking about the negative effects of tracking, emphasizing that tracking can be traced back to segregation and is used as a tool to miseducate and maintain intellectual control over Black students. At 00:17:18, SCLC President Joseph E. Lowery speaks about the reversal of Plessy v. Ferguson to create equal educational access, stating that, "We let folks define integration who did not have our best interest at heart. They defined integration as a systematic movement of all things Black to all things white but we must redefine integration as the emphatic movement of all things wrong to all things right." Speakers also discuss student dropout rates, the political and economic influences on tracking and school systems, and the negative effects of tracking. This video concludes with youth performances (beginning at 01:11:53) and remarks from Dick Gregory regarding the irony of society idolizing negative influences over positive influences and broken education systems and families.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:01409
- Rights Holder:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Additional Rights Information:
- All works in this collection either are protected by copyright and/or are the property of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, and/or the copyright holder as appropriate. To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact the Archives Research Center at: archives@auctr.edu with the web URL or handle identification number.
- Extent:
- 02:00:25
- Original Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:199 - Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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