This article discusses Black teacher activism during Jim Crow through a case study of the Florida State Teachers Association. Few studies have examined the response of Black teacher associations to Jim Crow educational policies. This study examines inequities in school and teacher salaries and the FSTA's response by way of campaigns, rhetoric and other activities. It demonstrates that the FSTA's countered educational underinvestment and neglect during the 1920s and 1930s and describes the FSTA's praxis during the 1940s. The study concludes that the FSTA maintained an activist role in for liberation through educational organizing. It suggests that Black teacher activism occurred across the Southern region bolstering Southern education and contributing to the Civil Rights Movement.