Arthur E. Thomas, Ed.D.
ACTIVIST | EDUCATOR | MENTOR | ADVOCATE
“We are at war today, and the battlefield is the classroom.”
– arthur e. thomas
About
WHO IS ARTHUR THOMAS?
I’ve been described as a unique, militant and fearless educator who inspired my students to always be their very best. While teaching at MacFarlane Elementary School in Dayton, Ohio, I was hand-picked by the Model Cities Program in the late 1960’s to fight racism at the Board of Education. I took action to protect Black students and their parents by utilizing the legal system to influence outcomes in education that empowered Blacks and poor families of all ethnicities. As a result, I was able to disrupt racism in Education and made a difference.
DR. ARTHUR E. THOMAS
ARCHIVES
Wright State University
PHOTOGRAPHS
PUBLICATIONS
ARTICLES
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Creative Consultant | Producer
FILM PROJECTS
Stayed Tuned
1974
2023
Dr. Thomas tells it
LIKE IT IS
With Joe Madision
Hosted from SiriusXM’s Washington, D.C. headquarters, An American Conversation – We Are All Americans, was an ongoing series focused on the need for a national dialogue about race in America. Urban View host Joe Madison (“The Black Eagle”) moderated the series beginning with a roundtable discussion on a hotly debated topic in the news at the time: the School to Prison Pipeline. The special debuted on October 9, 2015 on SiriusXM’s Urban View channel 126 where Joe Madison led the panelists in an in-depth conversation that focused on improving the conditions contributing to pushing predominantly minority youth into the prison system.
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PHOTO GALLERY
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Formative Years
Dayton Public Schools
Higher Learning
Central State University
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To my family, to my classmates, to my Kappa brothers in the bond, to my colleagues, to my friends in the USA and all over the world, and to all my former students: Stick to the fight when you are hardest hit because it’s when things seem the worst that we must not quit. God bless you. I love you, I trust you, I respect you.
Activist |Educator | Mentor | Advocate
Dr. Arthur E. Thomas
