B.E.N. -Black Educators' Network empowers parents and teachers to strengthen students' academic success in K-12 schools.
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ALT Slide 1: A graphic features the text “Benjamin E. Mays” surrounded by descriptors: “civil rights activist, theologian and #BlackTeacher.” The header reads, “#BlackHistoryMonth: Celebrating Black Educators.” In the bottom left, a grayscale photo of Benjamin E. Mays is accompanied by his powerful quote: “It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.”
ALT Slide 2: Set against a black background are greyscale photos of Benjamin E. Mays. Alongside them is a brief biography highlighting his life and legacy as the “Dean of the Movement”, focusing on his championing of liberation through learning and influence as a mentor and educator.
ALT Slide 3: A graphic features a still of Benjamin E. Mays with a class of young men, accompanied by her inspirational quote: “Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.”
ALT Slide 1: A graphic features the text “Septima P. Clark” surrounded by descriptors: “civil rights activist, author and #BlackTeacher.” The header reads, “#BlackHistoryMonth: Celebrating Black Educators.” In the bottom left, a grayscale photo of Septima P. Clark is accompanied by her powerful quote: “I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.“
ALT Slide 2: Set against a black background are greyscale photos of Septima P. Clark. Alongside them is a brief biography highlighting her life and legacy as the “Mother of the Movement”, focusing on her contributions to education, including Citizenship Schools.
ALT Slide 3: A graphic features a still of Septima P. Clark with a class of young women, accompanied by her inspirational quote shared in 1962 Echo in My Soul: “I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.”
ALT Slide 1: A graphic features the text “Anna J. Cooper” surrounded by descriptors: “author, sociologist, speaker, activist, and #BlackTeacher.” The header reads, “#BlackHistoryMonth: Celebrating Black Educators.” In the bottom left, a grayscale photo of Anna J. Cooper is accompanied by her powerful quote: “I speak for the colored women of the South, because it is there that the millions of blacks in this country have watered the soil with blood and tears."
ALT Slide 2: Set against a black background are greyscale photos of Anna J. Cooper. Alongside them is a brief biography highlighting her life and legacy, focusing on her contributions to education, including the seminal work, A Voice from the South (1892).
ALT Slide 3: A graphic features a still of Anna Julia Cooper with a class of young women, accompanied by her inspirational quote shared at 1893 World’s Congress of Representative Women: “The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class—it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.”
