References and suggested readings:

• Alexander D. Hyres. 2026. Protest and Pedagogy: Charlottesville’s Black Freedom Struggle and the Making of the American High School. University of Georgia Press. 
• Alex Hyres’s faculty page
• Heather Andrea Williams. 2007. Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom. University of North Carolina Press.
• James D. Anderson. 1988. Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. University of North Carolina Press. 
• Jarvis R. Givens. 2023. Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching. Harvard University Press.
• Vanessa Siddle Walker. 1996. Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South. University of North Carolina Press.
• School Yearbook: A Cringey Tradition and Its Digital Afterlife episode with Kate Eichhorn 
• Scott Anderson. 2025. King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation. Doubleday.
• Instagram @hyres376 Bluesky @hyres376.bsky.social, linktree 

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