The article discusses the complicated history of the Black Independent School Movement and traces the history and struggles faced by Chicago’s New Concept Development Center, a once independent Afrocentric school which evolved into Betty Shabazz International Charter Schools network.
Once seen as a viable avenue for continuing their culture-focused missions in the wake of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, charter schools proved to come with a host of difficulties that interfered with the original mission of many of the formerly independent schools.
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Source: Black Perspectives (Published by the African American Intellectual History Society)