Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching

Black education was subversive from its inception.

African Americans pursued education through clandestine means, often in defiance of law and custom, even under threat of violence.

They developed what Jarvis Givens calls a tradition of “fugitive pedagogy”—a theory and practice of Black education epitomized by Carter G.

Woodson—groundbreaking historian, founder of Black History Month, and legendary educator under Jim Crow.