ABSTRACT
This chapter draws from an oral history project (Harlow, 2020) focused on capturing, preserving, and exploring the accounts of people who participated in the April 2018 Oklahoma Teacher Walkout. Through a variety of creative approaches, including photo-elicitation and collaborative visual analysis, the chapter also contributes to development in oral history and educational biography methodology and analysis. The Walkout was one of many mass teacher actions occurring in the USA in recent years (2012–2018). Teachers voiced their concerns through collective bodily protest. Oklahoma’s Walkout started on April 2, 2018, lasted nine days, and included local actions, social media activism, a 110-mile march, and a mass gathering at the state Capitol. Teachers’ activist accounts offer powerful insights into their educational biographies as teachers. The chapter highlights three dimensions of teachers’ experiences—forging community, body politics, and emotion-that collectively underscore the power of individual oral histories to preserve teachers’ personal accounts and to provide insights into historical events.
