Jessica Viñas-Nelson

Jessica Viñas-Nelson is an assistant professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University where she teaches African American History. She received her PhD from The Ohio State University and studies African American intellectual debates and identity formation.

 


 

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Content by Jessica Viñas-Nelson

Black children carrying signs and accompanied by four mothers, walk to Webster School, Hillsboro, Ohio, April 3, 1956.

Marching Mothers

Neither wind nor rain could stop a band of Ohio mothers from securing the education their children deserved.