Honoring Minniejean Brown Trickey
MinnieJean Trickey Brown
This past fall, I attended a conference in Little Rock, AR. While I was there, I went by the historic Central High School, where several African-American students were the first students of color at the all white high school. While facing certain adversity, the students attended the school and made history.
One in particular, Minnijean Brown Trickey committed her work as a teacher to peacemaking, diversity education and training, environmental issues, gender and social justice advocacy. She also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Workforce Diversity at the Department of the Interior for the Clinton administration.
This year Minniejean is being honored by the National Women’s History Project for her life’s work so far. Their theme is Generations of Women Moving History Forward.
In an article from 2005, Minnijean commented on her role at Central High School:
“Our resistance was so powerful,” she recalled. “I was living history.”
She also expressed her views on the vitality of Black History Month:
“Black History Month is American history at its very core.”
Minniejean is also the definition of American History and why it should be studied.
i love her. i met her daughter at my high school in russellville she is really sweet!
Comment by angel hankins — September 24, 2008 @ 1:59 pm
im working on a class project. this story is very touching. i read all this stuff about how life used to be and how the black race used to b treated. im so glad that every thing is diffrent now. over 5/4 of my friends are of a diffrent race and i cant emagine life withh out them.
Comment by :) me — January 16, 2009 @ 1:47 pm