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SCLC Archive #257: Jacqueline Jordan Irvine 1986 Nation at Risk education barriers
May–June 1986 SCLC pp. 126–132: Emory associate professor Jacqueline Jordan Irvine’s seven-page essay “Obstructions to Excellence: Black Children and A Nation At Risk” answers the 1983 commission report with four structural barriers—tracking, exclusionary discipline, loss of Black principals/teachers, and minimum-competency testing—plus a parent/community oversight agenda. Printed byline reads “IVRINE”; same-issue p. 63 caption supports the Irvine identification.
Source: LOC Rosa Parks Papers mss859430213 leaves 0066–0069 (essay) + 0034 (caption) + cover 0002. Sol commit 1d2a19ce.
Craft: published essay / numbered framework / recommendations ≠ district adoption, audited school-system outcomes, Parks endorsement, or independent verification of every cited figure. Byline anomaly preserved as printed; identification rests on internal evidence (name + Emory affiliation + same-issue caption), not a signed manuscript.
Track: education-opportunity / structural-barriers response to A Nation at Risk (distinct from Alabama absentee, Haiti exiles, member travelogue, anti-apartheid grocery, VCU, environmental-justice, student, anti-Klan CDR, W.O.M.E.N., Stop the Killing tracks).
Report: immutable README.