Education for liberation : the American Missionary Association and African Americans, 1890 to the Civil Rights Movement / Joe M. Richardson and Maxine D. Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richardson, Joe Martin.

Contributor:

Jones, Maxine Deloris.

Richardson, Joe Martin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American Missionary Association--History--19th century.

American Missionary Association.

American Missionary Association--History--20th century.

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2009]

Summary:

The AMA regarded education as the means to full citizenship for African Americans and supported scores of elementary and secondary schools and several colleges at a time when private schooling offered almost the only chance for black youth to advance beyond the elementary grades. Such AMA schools, with their interracial faculties and advocacy for basic civil rights for black citizens, were a constant challenge to southern racial norms, and trained thousands of leaders in all areas of black life.

Contents:

1 Common Schools 1

2 Normal and Secondary Schools 16

3 Administration and Fund Collecting 57

4 "Houses of Refuge": Functional Education and Community Centers 70

5 "Temptation to Right Doing": The AMA and Public Schools 101

6 AMA Colleges, 1890-1950 117

7 Race Relations Department 159.

Notes:

Rev. ed. of: Christian reconstruction.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [205]-275) and index.

Related Work:

Richardson, Joe Martin. Christian reconstruction.

ISBN:

9780817316570

0817316574

9780817382452

0817382453

OCLC:

276514981