Perspective: The pedagogical vision of Sumner’s faculty during the era of legal segregation sustained Black students’ dreams.
Very little attention, if any at all, has been given to the Black educational institution that taught a young Bullock and other Black children that they could be anything they wanted to be during the age of Jim Crow. Turner’s successes with Ike andIke can be traced to the fact that at the very time that she first launched a professional singing career, she was a student at the all-Black Sumner High School in St. Louis.
Not only was Sumner’s faculty well-credentialed, but they were also innovative and at the forefront of challenging antiblackness in standard history curriculums.
It was within this context of a transformative and radical Black past that Bullock experienced secondary education in Missouri. She doubled as a Sumner schoolgirl on weekdays and a club phenom on the weekends, singing for Ike Turner and his band, the Kings of Rhythm. Bullock perfected this juggling act and graduated from Sumner in 1958. Months later, she appeared on her first record, on the single “Boxtop” under the name “Little Ann,” and soon after, she became Tina Turner on “A Fool In Love.
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