Jessie Simmons: How a Schoolteacher Became an Unsung Hero of the Civil Rights Movement
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Jessie Simmons: How a Schoolteacher Became an Unsung Hero of the Civil Rights Movement
Brown vs Topeka BOE may have been good for Black students but not for Black teachers. Jessie Dean Gipson Simmons, shown top center about age 37, c. 1961. [Clockwise: daughter Angela, sons Obadiah Jerone, Jr. and Carl, and husband Obadiah Jerone, Sr.; daughters Carolyn and Quendelyn are not pictured] Simmons family archives, Author providedValerie Hill-Jackson, Texas A&M UniversityJessie Dean Gipson Simmons was full of optimism when she and he…
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