Model schools in the model city : race, planning, and education in the nation's capital / Amber N. Wiley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wiley, Amber N., author.

Series:

Culture, politics, and the built environment.

Culture politics and the built environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American children--Washington (D.C.)--History.

School buildings--Washington (D.C.)--History.

Educational planning--Washington (D.C.)--History.

Educational technology.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 429 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Race, planning, and education in the nation's capital

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2025]

Summary:

How Black Washingtonians directed urban planning and design policy for public education.

Contents:

Introduction. Finding My Roots: Digging up the History of DC's Public Schools

1 Free to Learn: Building the Black Public School System

2 Hard Lessons: The Shackling of the Black Educational Landscape

3 Black Secondary Schools: Jim Crow Monuments to Racial Uplift

4 To Secure These Rights: Educational Equalization in the Postwar Metropolis

5 With the People, By the People, For the People: Shaw School Urban Renewal

6 Black Power and Brutalism: Activist Architects and Progressive School Design

7 Lessons Learned? The Politics of Preservation for Washington's Black Schools

Epilogue. Rites of Passage: The Death and Life of Black Public

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822991847

0822991845

OCLC:

1512320467