Charles M. Payne

American academic (born 1948)

Charles M. Payne
Payne in 2016
Born	(1948-03-14) March 14, 1948 (age 76)
Nationality	American
Occupation	Academic

Charles M. Payne, Jr. (born March 14, 1948) is an American academic whose areas of study include civil rights activism, urban education reform, social inequality, and modern African-American history. He was the Chief Education Officer for Chicago Public Schools^[1] and used to be the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration.

Education and career

Charles Payne received a Bachelor's Degree in Afro-American studies from Syracuse University in 1970 and a Ph.D in sociology from Northwestern University in 1976.^[2] He has held professorial positions and endowed chairs at several American institutions, among them Southern University, Williams College, Haverford College, Northwestern, Duke University, where he held the Sally Dalton Robinson Chair for Teaching Excellence, and the University of Chicago (Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Social Service Administration).^[3]

Payne has also been active in the creation and direction of several organizations intended to address issues of social justice. He is the founding director of the Urban Education Project in Orange, N.J., a community-based effort to provide advanced career training for local youth. While at Duke, he co-founded the John Hope Franklin Scholars, a program that helps Durham-area high schoolers prepare for and apply to college.^[4] His other projects have included the Duke Curriculum Project, the Education for Liberators Network, and work with the Chicago Algebra Project and with the Steering Committee for the Consortium on Chicago School Research.

His most recent books are So Much Reform, So Little Change (Harvard Education Publication Group, 2008 ) and an anthology about the African-American tradition of education for liberation entitled Teach Freedom (Teacher's College Press, 2008).^[3]

Publications

Getting What We Ask For: The Ambiguity of Success and Failure In Urban Education (1984)
I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (1995)]
Co-author (with Steven F. Lawson), Debating the Civil Rights Movement (1999)
Co-editor (with Adam Green), Time Longer Than Rope: A Century of African American Activism, 1850-1950 (2003)
So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools (2008)
Co-editor (with Carol Sills Strickland), Teach Freedom: Education for Liberation in the African-American Tradition (2008)
Various articles on urban education and civil rights.

References

^ "CPS Officials Announce New Chief Education Officer: Charles M. Payne" Archived 2014-08-10 at the Wayback Machine (press release), Chicago Public Schools.
^ "Noted scholar of urban schooling joins faculty at School of Social Service Administration", University of Chicago News Office, June 8, 2007.
^ ^a ^b "Charles M. Payne, PhD" Archived 2014-08-10 at the Wayback Machine. Biography at The University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration.
^ Duke Library Magazine Archived 2011-03-05 at the Wayback Machine Vol. 18.

External links

Biography at National Symposium for World Class Education in Illinois.

Civil rights movement (1954–1968)

Events
(timeline)

Prior to 1954	Journey of Reconciliation Executive Order 9981 Murders of Harry and Harriette Moore Sweatt v. Painter (1950) McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents (1950) Baton Rouge bus boycott
1954–1959	Brown v. Board of Education Bolling v. Sharpe Briggs v. Elliott Davis v. Prince Edward County Gebhart v. Belton Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company Emmett Till Montgomery bus boycott Browder v. Gayle Tallahassee bus boycott Mansfield school desegregation 1957 Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom "Give Us the Ballot" Royal Ice Cream sit-in Little Rock Nine Cooper v. Aaron Civil Rights Act of 1957 Ministers' Manifesto Katz Drug Store sit-in Kissing Case Biloxi wade-ins
1960–1963	New Year's Day March Sit-in movement Greensboro sit-ins Nashville sit-ins Atlanta sit-ins Savannah Protest Movement Greenville Eight Civil Rights Act of 1960 Ax Handle Saturday Gomillion v. Lightfoot Boynton v. Virginia University of Georgia desegregation riot Rock Hill sit-ins Robert F. Kennedy's Law Day Address Freedom Rides Anniston bombing Birmingham attack Garner v. Louisiana Albany Movement Cambridge movement University of Chicago sit-ins "Second Emancipation Proclamation" Meredith enrollment, Ole Miss riot Atlanta's Berlin Wall "Segregation now, segregation forever" Stand in the Schoolhouse Door 1963 Birmingham campaign Letter from Birmingham Jail Children's Crusade Birmingham riot 16th Street Baptist Church bombing John F. Kennedy's speech to the nation on Civil Rights Detroit Walk to Freedom March on Washington "I Have a Dream" Big Six St. Augustine movement
1964–1968	Twenty-fourth Amendment Chester school protests Bloody Tuesday 1964 Monson Motor Lodge protests Freedom Summer workers' murders Civil Rights Act of 1964 Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States Katzenbach v. McClung 1964–1965 Scripto strike 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches "How Long, Not Long" Voting Rights Act of 1965 Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections March Against Fear White House Conference on Civil Rights Chicago Freedom Movement/Chicago open housing movement Loving v. Virginia Memphis sanitation strike King assassination funeral riots Civil Rights Act of 1968 Poor People's Campaign Green v. County School Board of New Kent County Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co.