Jahana Hayes, center, the 2016 National Teacher of the Year, reacts to remarks during her talk last Friday at the Teachers of Color Summit in Downtown. Sharing the dais are, left, Dr. James J. Fedderman, vice president of the Virginia Education Association, and Jim Livingston, president of the statewide teachers group.
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Minority teachers, students facing same challenges of Jim Crow South
Unequal pay for teachers of color, poor quality education for African-American students, neglecting African-American history in school curricula and political activism as a means to improve education were among the major issues for African-Americans prior to the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education.
