Using past as prologue : contemporary perspectives on African American educational history

In 1978, V. P. Franklin and James D. Anderson co-edited New Perspectives on Black Educational History. For Franklin, Anderson, and their contributors, there were glaring gaps in the historiography of Black education that each of the essays began to fill with new information or fresh perspectives. Th...

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Other Authors Danns, Dionne (Editor), Purdy, Michelle A. (Editor), Span, Christopher M. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2015]
SeriesResearch on African American education.
Subjects
African Americans > Education > History.
Discrimination in education > United States > History.
Segregation in education > United States > History.
Educational equalization > United States > History.
Education > Inclusive Education.
Educational strategies and policy: inclusion.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806610945
DOI10.1108/978-1-68123-172-3
Physical Description1 online resource (xv, 366 pages) : illustrations, map

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Towards a New History of African American Education / Dionne Danns, Michelle A. Purdy, and Christopher M. Span
  • Why the Nineteenth Century Still Matters / Christopher M. Span
  • A Class All Their Own : Economic and Educational Independence of Free People of Color in Antebellum Louisiana / Alisha D. Johnson
  • Forgotten or Simply Ignored : A Historiography of African Americans and Catholic Education / Katrina M. Sanders
  • New Perspectives on Progressive Education : HBCU Lab High Schools during Jim Crow / Sharon G. Pierson
  • Graduate Study and Jim Crow : The Circular Migration of Southern Black Educators, 1945-1970 / Donna Jordan-Taylor
  • Words of Action : The Speeches of President Alfonso Elder and the North Carolina Student Movement / Eddie Rice Cole
  • "We Declare Independence from the Unjust Laws of Mississippi" : The Freedom Schools, Head Start and the Reconstruction of Education during the Civil Rights Movement / Jon N. Hale
  • The Rise and Fall of a Black Private School : Holy Name of Mary and the Golden Age of Black Private Education in Chicago, 1940-1990 / Worth Kamili Hayes
  • "Why Are You Going All the Way Up There to That White School?" : Oral History, Desegregation, and Chicago Experiences / Dionne Danns
  • Control and Independence : Black Alternatives for Urban Education / Elizabeth S. Todd-Breland
  • African American Education in the Age of Accountability, 1975-2005 / R. Scott Baker
  • Reassessing the Achievement Gap : An Intergenerational Comparison of African American Student Achievement before and after Compensatory Education and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) / Christopher M. Span and Ishwanzya D. Rivers
  • Future Directions of Historically Black Colleges and Universities / Marybeth Gasman and Felecia Commodore
  • Connecting the Dots : Reflecting on Pedagogy and African American Educational History / Michelle A. Purdy
  • Epilogue : From Freedom Schools to Freedom Schooling? / V.P. Franklin.

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