The education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 / James D. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, James D., 1944-

Contributor:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

African Americans.

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

African Americans--Education.

History.

Southern States.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Ex-Slaves and the Rise of Universal Education in the South, 1860-1880

The Hampton Model of Normal School Industrial Education, 1868-1880

Education and the Race Problem in the New South: The Struggle for Ideological Hegemony

Normal Schools and County Training Schools: Education the South's Black Teaching Force, 1900-1935

Common Schools for Black Children: The Second Crusade, 1900-1935

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

Training the Apostles of Liberal Culture: Black Higher Education, 1900-1935

Epilogue: Black Education in Southern History.

Notes:

Cover photo: Students at Snow Hill Institute in Wilcox County, Alabama, 1902.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-351) and index.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

0807817937

0807842214

OCLC:

17297653