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12-11-2024 | Dr. Barbara Brown, Founder of Hidden Brookline

We'd Done the Research....what happened next: conundrums of public education & restorative justice 7:00 Presentation 37:00 Q&A About Dr. Barbara Brown I’ve happily spent my adult life as an educator, first as a middle school teacher, then as a professor at the University of Botswana and later at Mount Holyoke College. While in Botswana, I published the first significant study that focused on Batswana women. On returning home, I became deeply involved in the Boston anti-apartheid movement. Our greatest success was to pass a law requiring the state to divest from South Africa--a first in the US. Our victory appeared in several South African newspapers. For the last thirty years I have led two programs in public education, both on topics that are often overlooked. The first program was on Africa: I became the director of public education at Boston University’s African Studies Center. The program was wildly ambitious: to correct and enhance American knowledge of Africa, esp. in the schools. The program received a number of grants from Fulbright and National Endowment for the Humanities. I consulted for PBS, Pearson Education, museums and more. I created a startling map poster How Big Is Africa? that thousands of schools use. At one point, I co-led a successful coalition that prevented the MA Board of Education from removing African and Latin American history from the World History standards. In 2006 I initiated another public education program: Hidden Brookline: bringing to light slavery and freedom. Until people understand the breadth and depth of slavery here, little will change. Hidden Brookline’s programs include walking tours, talks, concerts, a website and more. We participated in the turbulent but ultimately successful campaign to change the names of two schools, formerly named for enslavers. The new names honor two African Americans, national trailblazers who lived in Brookline: Florida Ruffin Ridley and Roland Hayes.