Institute of Positive Education

CTL-E-0300 · Organization · civic · 1969–present

Verified evidence grade of this record

Chicago Black independent-education institution founded in 1969, advancing Afrocentric schooling.

The record

Also known as: IPE

Relationships

Haki Madhubuti — founded by
Founded in Chicago in 1969 by Madhubuti and others, with Madhubuti as director (Encyclopedia.com — Haki R. Madhubuti)

Sources

Encyclopedia.com — Haki R. Madhubuti
Essence — Black Independent Schools

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Rosenwald school classroom, Cassville, GeorgiaPhoto: John Phelan, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Rosenwald school, Delight, ArkansasPhoto: Valis55, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Freedmen’s primary school, Vicksburg, 1866 (Harper’s Weekly engraving)Photo: A. R. W., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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