Posts by Lauren Stark

The Struggle over I.S. 201: Babette Edwards Education Reform in Harlem Collection

by Lauren Stark, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
September 16, 2021

This collection documents inequities at Intermediate School (I.S.) 201 in East Harlem, New York, in the 1960s–70s with a focus on the efforts of parent leader and school reform advocate Babette Edwards.

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