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Envisioning black colleges : a history of the United Negro College Fund / Marybeth Gasman ; foreword by John R. Thelin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gasman, Marybeth.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United Negro College Fund--History.
- United Negro College Fund.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The first history of the UNCF, Envisioning Black Colleges draws attention to the significance of black colleges in higher education and the role they played in Americans' struggle for equality.
- Contents:
- Black colleges and the origins of the United Negro College Fund
- Bringing the millionaires on board
- Flirting with social equality: New York's elite women raise funds
- A stigma of inferiority: the effect of Brown v. Board
- Responding to the black consciousness movement
- Speaking out on behalf of black colleges
- "A mind is a terrible thing to waste"
- An organization that no one could argue against.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-259) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9185-X
- 1-4356-9196-2
- OCLC:
- 310122470
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