Authoress T'Malkia Zuri
We Taught This [BEEP] Vol 3
Historical Newspaper Evidence of
Black American Educators
and Early Schools
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Empress T is dedicated to uncovering and preserving the true legacy of Native Black Americans. Through Revelations of the Remembered, she combines lived experience, certified research, and verified documentation to reconstruct the narrative of a people who were never lost — only misclassified.
Historical Newspaper Evidence of Black American Educators, Orators, and Early Schools- T'Malkia Zuri
We Taught This [Beep] is a first-of-its-kind historical collection documenting the educational leadership, academic institutions, and intellectual authority of native Black Americans long before integration narratives and revisionist textbooks.
Using verified newspaper clippings, preserved photographs, and documented accounts from the 1800s through the early 1900s, this book restores what was deliberately buried:
Native Black American educators founded schools.
Native Black American orators shaped public thought.
Native Black American institutions trained generations — often in the face of violence, exclusion, and sabotage.
These records reveal:
Independent Native Black American schools and academies
Principals, professors, teachers, and lecturers documented by name
Orators, scholars, and public intellectuals recognized in their own time
Communities that prioritized education despite systemic obstruction
This is not myth.
This is not folklore.
This is verifiable documentation.
A Counter-Narrative Rooted in Receipts
Not Opinions or Narratives
Image Source: The Lincoln School of Moberly, Missouri 1920-1955 (Randolph County Historical Black Society)
A Counter-Narrative Rooted in Receipts — Not Opinions
While modern narratives attempt to diminish or distort the intellectual legacy of Indigenous Black Americans — often driven by institutions and voices with no stake in our lineage — the historical record tells a different story.
Newspaper archives document Native Black American educators founding schools, Native Black American orators shaping public thought, and Native Black American scholars leading classrooms, lecture halls, and training institutions across the country.
These records show:
Native Black teachers instructing generations long before desegregation
Native Black principals, professors, and lecturers recognized publicly by name
Native Black-run schools, academies, and institutes operating despite exclusion and hostility
These were not informal efforts.
These were organized institutions, credentialed educators, and structured systems of learning documented in real time.
We Taught This [Beep] presents evidence that cannot be debated or dismissed.
Educators, Orators, Scholars, and Schools — Long Before Recognition Was Given
The book highlights documented achievements such as:
Native Black educators founding and leading independent schools and academies
Native Black teachers instructing in primary, secondary, and higher education
Native Black orators delivering lectures, commencement addresses, and public instruction
Native Black scholars shaping intellectual life through debate, writing, and pedagogy
Native Black institutions educating communities despite segregation, violence, and defunding
Native Black educational leadership operating before many immigrant groups entered the U.S. school system
Through original newspaper clippings, this book restores a historical truth:
Black Americans didn’t just learn here — we taught here.
