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To Advance the Race

Black Women's Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s

ISBN-13: 9780252087837
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
By Linda Perkins
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Local release date: 09/04/2024
Format: Paperback (235.00mm X 156.00mm) 408 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: History of education [JNB]

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Google Preview: From the United States' earliest days, African Americans considered education essential for their freedom and progress. Linda Perkins's study ranges across educational and geographical settings to tell the stories of Black women and girls as students, professors, and administrators. Beginning with early efforts and the establishment of abolitionist colleges, Perkins follows the history of Black women's post-Civil War experiences at elite white schools and public universities in northern and midwestern states. Their presence in Black institutions like Howard University marked another advancement, as did Black women becoming professors and administrators. But such progress intersected with race and education in the postwar era. As gender questions sparked conflict between educated Black women and Black men, it forced the former to contend with traditional notions of women's roles even as the 1960s opened educational opportunities for all African Americans. A first of its kind history, To Advance the Race is an enlightening look at African American women and their multi-generational commitment to the ideal of education as a collective achievement.; Linda Perkins is a professor and the director of Applied Gender Studies Department at Claremont Graduate University. She is the author of Fanny Jackson Coppin and the Institute for Colored Youth, 1865-1902.; Acknowledgments Introduction Part One Chapter 1. Education for "Race Uplift": History of Black Education in the North Prior to the Civil War Chapter 2. Abolitionist Colleges Part Two Chapter 3. The College Bred Black Women at Predominately White Institutions in Post-Civil War Era Chapter 4. Major Public Universities and Black Women in the Heartland Part Three Chapter 5. Black Women and Historically Black Colleges in the South Chapter 6. Lucy Diggs Slowe and Deans of Women's at Historically Black Colleges Chapter 7. Deans of Women After Slowe Part Four Chapter 8. The Black Woman Professoriate Chapter Nine. Education and Marginality: The Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index; Google Preview content

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