What Black educators are saying. / Edited by Nathan Wright, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Nathan, editor.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Education.

African Americans.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages, ix pages, 1 unnumbered page, 286 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, Hawthorn Books, Inc. Publishers, 1970.

Contents:

Part I: The Black Educator. Education for Black Humanism: A Way of Approaching It / Preston Wilcox; The New Black Dimension in Our Society / Olivia Pearl Stokes; The Black Teacher and Black Power / Leslie Campbell; The Devil Can Never Educate Us / Leslie Campbell; The Black Psychologist: Pawn or Professional? / Jesse J. Johnson; Humanizing Our Schools / Nathan Wright, Jr.

Part II: The White Establishment. Urban Schoolteaching: The Personal Touch / Lawrence Hawkins; The Education of Black Children / M. Lee Montgomery; The New Literature on Education of the Black Child / Edward K. Weaver; A Message to the Establishment / interview by Frank Kent with Norma Jean Anderson; Shankerism / Nathan Wright, Jr.

Part III: The University Scene. Financing the Black University / Robert S. Browne; The Afro-American College in American Higher Education / Darwin T. Turner; Higher Education and the American Negro / Benjamin E. Mays; Can We Look to Harvard / Nathan Wright, Jr.; The Campus Confrontation / Nathan Wright, Jr.; Where Do We Go from Here? / Elizabeth Duncan Koontz; The Black Presence in American Higher Education / Andrew Billingsley; The Black Crisis on Campus / Franklin H. Williams

Part IV: Educational Redefinition. The Relevance of Education for Blackamericans / C. Eric Lincoln; On Correct Black Education / John E. Churchville; The Question of Discipline / John E. Churchville; Toward a New System of Education / Grace Lee Boggs; An Alternative to Miseducation for the Afro-American People / Edwina C. Johnson; Black Studies-Forecast from Hindsight / Nathan Wright, Jr.; Black Power and Black History / John Henrik Clarke

Part V: Community Involvement and Action. "Community Involvement" in Schools / Albert Vann; The Agency Shop / Albert Vann; The Civil Rights Struggle / Samuel W. Allen; Why Have an Ocean Hill-Brownsville? / Rhody McCoy; Building Black Economic Emancipation with Ten-Dollar Building Block / Rev. Leon Howard Sullivan; Our Schools / Nathan Wright, Jr.; Our Changing School and Community / M. Lee Montgomery; Community Building and Learning Centers / M. Lee Montgomery.

Notes:

"Cover design by Alan Peckolick."

"In these essays, some of the nation's leading black educators speak of the urgent need for humanizing the nation's schools."--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

OCLC:

143223