The Black Teacher Archive

The Black Teacher Archive (BTA) is a freely available digital portal centralizing materials created by professional organizations of African American educators, historically referred to as Colored Teachers Associations (CTAs). The primary holdings of the portal are 20th century serial publications by CTAs.

The collection makes public the intellectual, political, and cultural contributions of Black educators during the Jim Crow era through the Civil Rights era. The BTA brings together materials from 70 archival repositories across the United States and makes available for research more than 50,000 pages authored by African American educators.

The project is based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in association with the Monroe C. Gutman Library Special Collections and is made possible through the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Spencer Foundation.