Preface: a new grammar for black education --
Introduction: Blackness and the art of teaching --
Between coffle and classroom: Carter G. Woodson as a student and teacher, 1875-1912 --
"The association ... is standing like the watchman on the wall": fugitive pedagogy and Black institutional life --
A language we can see a future in: Black educational criticism as theory in its own right --
The fugitive slave as a folk hero in Black curricular imaginations: constructing new scripts of knowledge --
Fugitive pedagogy as a professional standard: Woodson's "abroad mentorship" of Black teachers --
"Doomed to be both a witness and a participant": the shared vulnerability of Black students and Black teachers --
Conclusion: Black schoolteachers and the origin story of Black studies.
