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The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935

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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.

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.

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.

I read this book during college, but it was one of those books that I kept because it was just such a seminal work in the study of education history and policy. I later shared it with a professor at another institution who'd been in the field for several decades and is now a college president and he was amazed at what the book offered. He just couldn't believe that he didn't know many of the things contained in Anderson's work. Another book, Trouble In Mind by Leon Litwack features some of the research from this book.

Simply put, if you're looking for a book that provides the historical foundations of much of today's educational infrastructure, while also discussing the ugly history of education policy in our country then this is a book to add to your bookshelf permanently.

An interpenetration of the development of public education, propelled by African Americans emerging from slavery. Anderson lays a clear path in the history of education in the US. Rich data, well written, and descriptive! Good companion for Webber's book.

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