VISIBLE AND VALUABLE: (Re)imagining Title IXfP’20 educat’s Interpretations to Create Hostile-Free Racially Gendered Educational Environments for Blackgirls and Blackwomyn

In the United States Blackgirls ₁ and Blackwomyn have and continue to persist against racially gendered discrimination, at times in the form of sexual harassment, in their quest to participate in educational institutions. Historically, lawsuits have served as one way to combat Blacks’ exclusion from education. Exemplars include 9-year-old Linda Brown’s well-known U.S. Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education (1954), and before Brown, then recent Langston University graduate Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher sued the University of Oklahoma’s law school (Sipuel v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma, 1948). Despite a Supreme Court ruling in Sipuel Fisher’s favor for admission to the law school, she encountered racially gendered discrimination on her 1st day.