Ella Rainey discusses the ratio of black to white teachers in Newark.
PurposeExcerpts -- Oral histories
DescriptionElla Rainey says the Newark schools were predominantly staffed by Whites, as late as the 1960s. In terms of students, the high school was even more segregated than the elementary school. Listen to her talk about the difficulties she and other Black teachers had in making their way through the Board of Education bureaucracy.
