The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935

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Univ of North Carolina Press, Jan 27, 2010 - Social Science - 384 pages

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 their 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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Contents

Introduction
1
1 ExSlaves and the Rise of Universal Education in the South 18601880
4
2 The Hampton Model of Normal School Industrial Education 18681915
33
The Struggle for Ideological Hegemony
79
Educating the Souths Black Teaching Force 19001935
110
The Second Crusade 19001935
148
6 The Black Public High School and the Reproduction of Caste in the Urban South 18801935
186
Black Higher Education 19001935
238
Black Education in Southern History
279
Notes
287
Bibliography
313
Index
353
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About the author (2010)

James Anderson is professor of the history of education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and coeditor of New Perspectives on Black Educational History.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935
AuthorJames D. Anderson
PublisherUniv of North Carolina Press, 2010
ISBN0807898880, 9780807898888
Length384 pages
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History / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
  
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