James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a political, cultural, and economic context, he offers fresh insights into black commitment to education, the peculiar significance of Tuskegee Institute, and the conflicting goals of various philanthropic groups, among other matters. Initially, ex-slaves attempted to create an educational system that would support and extend their emancipation, but their children were pushed into a system of industrial education that presupposed black political and economic subordination. This conception of education and social order—supported by northern industrial philanthropists, some black educators, and most southern school officials—conflicted with the aspirations of ex-slaves and thei descendants, resulting at the turn of the century in a bitter national debate over the purposes of black education. Because blacks lacked economic and political power, white elites were able to control the structure and content of black elementary, secondary, normal, and college education during the first third of the twentieth century. Nonetheless, blacks persisted in their struggle to develop an educational system in accordance with their own needs and desires.
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This book represents a well documented work. Using primary sources, Anderson describes the heroic African American efforts to gain, through education, the participatory citizenship status which they deserved. In the process, he exposes the Caucasian American (both northern and southern) efforts to blantantly repress these education efforts and to disenfranchise African Americans of their due. History lessons on this book may be applied to our contemporary educational setting.Anderson employs a large number of statistics and examples to support his case. The nature of the book's content requires such documentation to dispell historical myths which history textbooks commonly espouse however. This book is an excellent read for history and education enthusists, as well as anyone else interested in opening their minds.
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This is a magnificent book. Fantastic readings and pictures that hold you to the events and give you a deeper understanding of what is going on during this time. Charts and graphs keep your perspective grounded. I highly recommend this book to anyone who interested in African American studies or to hear the truth about history.
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This work does an excellent job of describing how Washington did not really want "vocational" education, but instead "industrial" education, to educate blacks for a "place" and stifle dissent. It also does a good job of describing the "softer" discrimination philosophy of the North, and contextualizing the Northern industrialists, who saw industrial education as a way to pit blacks and immigrants against each other. An excellent discussion of black education, the fights of teacher training, and uplift.
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FORMER SLAVES were the first among native southerners to depart from the planters' ideology of education and society and to campaign for universal, state-supported public education. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black secondary education, black common schools, secondary industrial education, black teacher training institutions, southern white educational reformers, philanthropic northerners, schoolhouse construction program, black private institutions, northern industrial philanthropists, southern education movement, black industrial education, classical liberal curriculum, new black high school, industrial normal schools, negro rural schools, industrial philanthropy, black public high schools, county training schools, black educational history, black higher education, black religious organizations, public secondary education, industrial high school, philanthropic agents, high school age population Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fort Valley, General Education Board, North Carolina, South Carolina, Rosenwald Fund, New Orleans, Little Rock, Fisk University, Hampton Idea, The Education of Blacks, Hampton Institute, Freedmen's Bureau, United States, Slater Fund, Hampton-Tuskegee Idea, West Virginia, Wallace Buttrick, Civil War, Julius Rosenwald, Tuskegee Institute, American Missionary Association, World War, Southern Education Board, Atlanta University, New York City New!
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FORMER SLAVES were the first among native southerners to depart from the planters' ideology of education and society and to campaign for universal, state-supported public education. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black secondary education, black common schools, secondary industrial education, black teacher training institutions, southern white educational reformers, philanthropic northerners, schoolhouse construction program, black private institutions, northern industrial philanthropists, southern education movement, black industrial education, classical liberal curriculum, new black high school, industrial normal schools, negro rural schools, industrial philanthropy, black public high schools, county training schools, black educational history, black higher education, black religious organizations, public secondary education, industrial high school, philanthropic agents, high school age population Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fort Valley, General Education Board, North Carolina, South Carolina, Rosenwald Fund, New Orleans, Little Rock, Fisk University, Hampton Idea, The Education of Blacks, Hampton Institute, Freedmen's Bureau, United States, Slater Fund, Hampton-Tuskegee Idea, West Virginia, Wallace Buttrick, Civil War, Julius Rosenwald, Tuskegee Institute, American Missionary Association, World War, Southern Education Board, Atlanta University, New York City New!
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- Black Self-Determination: A Cultural History of the Faith of the Fathers by V. P. Franklin on 4 pages
- My Larger Education by Booker T. Washington in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Separate and Unequal: Public School Campaigns and Racism in the Southern Seaboard States, 1901-1915 by Louis R. Harlan in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Subordination or Liberation?: The Development and Conflicting Theories of Black Education in Nineteenth Century Alabama by Robert G. Sherer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Following the Color Line by Ray S. Baker in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Girl's Schooling During The Progressive Era: From Female Scholar to Domesticated Citizen (Studies in the History of Education) by Karen Graves on 5 pages
- Essays in Twentieth-Century Southern Education: Exceptionalism and Its Limits (Studies in the History of Education) by Wayne Urban on 5 pages
- W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919: Biography of a Race (Owl Books) by David Levering Lewis on 4 pages
- American Higher Education: A History by Christopher J. Lucas in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform by Diane Ravitch in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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