Negro Education in Alabama : A Study in Cotton and Steel / Horace Mann Bond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bond, Horace Mann, 1904-1972.

Series:

Library of Alabama classics.

Library of Alabama Classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Education--Alabama.

African Americans.

Alabama--Economic conditions.

Alabama.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University Alabama Press, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Horace Mann Bond (1904-1972) was a scholar and a college administrator who focused on higher education for African Americans. Negro Education in Alabama is derived from his dissertation, which received the Susan Colver Rosenberger Prize in 1937 and was published in 1939. " Horace Mann Bond," according to Sourthen Changes, " lived, worked, and wrote in both the South and the North during the reign of Jim Crow, and through the early years of its aftermath... .Bond was a bright, gifted, young scholar, on track to become a serious academ

Contents:

Contents; Introduction by Wayne J. Urban; Preface; I. Social and Economic Forces in the Making of Alabama; II. The Education of Negroes Under ""The Peculiar Institution""; III. Social Forces in Reconstruction; IV. Economic Forces in Alabama Reconstruction; V. The Course of Political Reconstruction, 1865-1875; VI. The Beginning of an Educational System, 1860-1868; VII. Public Education of Negroes During Reconstruction; VIII. The Objectives and Content of Reconstruction Education; IX. Cotton and Steel: Economic Changes in Alabama, 1865-1900

X. Economic and Political Changes as Affecting the Education of Negroes, 1875-1900XI. Race, Class, and the School Fund, 1875-1900; XII. The Constitutional Convention of 1901: Public Opinion of the Negro; XIII. The Constitutional Convention of 1901: Taxation and Education; XIV. The Influences of Personalities on the Public Education of Negroes in Alabama; XV. Cotton and Steel: Economic Changes in Alabama, 1900-1930; XVI. Cotton Plus Steel Equals Schools, 1900-1930; XVII. Philanthropy and Negro Education; XVIII. Conclusions: Negro Education in Alabama, a Study in Cotton and Steel; Bibliography

NotesAfterword by Martin Kilson; Index

Notes:

"With an introduction by Wayne J. Urban and an afterword by Martin Kilson."

Reprint. Previously published: New York : Octagon Books, 1969.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-304) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8173-8917-2

OCLC:

897907529