The Republic has been a source of inspiration for Black liberation for many years, and in this essay, I show that the system of education which Plato has Socrates propose in the Republic is compatible with Black feminisms in several contexts. I accomplish this in three sections. In Section One, I establish two criteria for determining just inclusion within or exclusion from a given educational system. I do this by comparing two views on education—those of the philosophers Socrates in Plato’s Republic and those of Claudia Jones in her “Autobiographical History.” They each examine an educational system’s justness using the same two principles—qualifications and self-determination. In Section 2, I discuss the contexts in which the Republic’s Socrates and Jones, especially in her essay “On The Right to Self-Determination for the Negro People in the Black Belt (1946) (A Discussion Article),” endorse separated education. Both allow for high degrees of racialization to be at play within these separations, but only where such separations are grounded in the individual and group’s qualifications and self-determinations. By using these two criteria, they both circumvent the possibility of unjust separation, or segregation, and unjust inclusion, or assimilation. In the Conclusion, I discuss portrayals of reactionaries—or people opposed to just education—by these two authors. This is one area where Black feminists like Jones offer more depth of analysis than Plato’s Socrates, and which remains essential as we continue to seek ideal systems of education in the present day.