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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456393503321

Autore

Anderson James D

Titolo

Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : The University of North Carolina Press, 1989

ISBN

0-8078-9888-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (383 p.)

Disciplina

370.0889073

370.0889073075

370/.0889073075

Soggetti

African Americans - Education - Southern States - History - 19th century

African Americans -- Education -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century

African Americans - Education - Southern States - History - 20th century

African Americans -- Education -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century

African Americans - Education - History - 19th century - Southern States

African Americans - Education - History - 20th century - Southern States

Education, Special Topics

Education

Social Sciences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Ex-Slaves and the Rise of Universal Education in the South, 1860-1880; 2. The Hampton Model of Normal School Industrial Education, 1868-1915; 3. Education and the Race Problem in the New South: The Struggle for Ideological Hegemony; 4. Normal Schools and County Training Schools: Educating the South's Black Teaching Force, 1900-1935; 5. Common Schools for Black Children: The Second Crusade, 1900-1935; 6. The Black Public



High School and the Reproduction of Caste in the Urban South, 1880-1935

7. Training the Apostles of Liberal Culture: Black Higher Education, 1900-1935Epilogue: Black Education in Southern History; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

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 presuppose