Educating Harlem brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to consider of the history of schooling in perhaps the nation's most iconic black community. The volume traces the varied ways that Harlem residents defined and pursued educational justice for their children and community despite consistent neglect and structural oppression. Educating Harlem is a comprehensive treatment that reveals the continued role of hope in shaping the activism of a community. The assembled scholars demonstrate Harlem's ongoing efforts to use education as a tool for citizenship and socioeconomic mobility.