
#23 Whose America?, pt. 2: Inner City Blues
The Martyr Made Podcast
The ATA and the Black Value System
The African American Teachers Association wanted what amounted to publicly financed black nationalist schools organized around the ideas of Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X. They insisted that racial cultures were so separate that only black teachers could teach black children effectively. The ATA called for an alternative black value system based on principles of collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics and unity. In April 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. And black students rioted in schools across New York City.
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