“As a retired high school counselor, we could see the need,” Janice Thacker, founder of the Black Educators Hall of Fame, said.She has an extensive career as an educator. “I started out as an art teacher, then to White Plains, New York, and the demand was they wanted Black teachers, and I was one of them,” Thacker said. “Then, I moved back to Wichita and worked for East High School.”
