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Higher Education for African Americans Before the Civil Rights Era, 1900-1964: 29 (Perspectives on the History of Higher Education,)

Higher Education for African Americans Before the Civil Rights Era, 1900-1964: 29 (Perspectives on the History of Higher Education,)

by Marybeth Gasman (Editor), Marybeth Gasman (Editor)

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    Paperback 2012

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Synopsis

This volume examines the evolution of higher education opportunities for African Americans in the early and mid-twentieth century. It contributes to understanding how African Americans overcame great odds to obtain advanced education in their own institutions, how they asserted themselves to gain control over those institutions, and how they persisted despite discrimination and intimidation in both northern and southern universities.

Following an introduction by the editors are contributions by Richard M. Breaux, Louis Ray, Lauren Kientz Anderson, Timothy Reese Cain, Linda M. Perkins, and Michael Fultz.

Contributors consider the expansion and elevation of African American higher education. Such progress was made against heavy odds-the separate but equal policies of the segregated South, less overt but pervasive racist attitudes in the North, and legal obstacles to obtaining equal rights.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 206
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 15 Jul 2012
ISBN 10: 1412847710
ISBN 13: 9781412847711

Media Reviews

The essays bring . . . events into sharper focus by adding texture and exploring specific, and often ignored, institutions and experiences in a variety of locations. . . . These authors as a whole provide a fascinating collection that ponders higher education dynamics through the lens of race. . . . [The] broad range of topics tickles the palate and promises an exciting research agenda. This volume . . . serve[s] as a fine pedagogical tool.

--Richard J. Altenbaugh, The Historian


Both the histories of higher education and of African American education have flourished in recent years, producing rich bodies of scholarship; this volume of essays nicely melds them together. . . . A fascinating collection that ponders higher education dynamics through the lens of race. . . . The broad range of topics tickles the palate and promises an exciting research agenda.

--Richard J. Altenbaugh, The Historian


Both the histories of higher education and of African American education have flourished in recent years, producing rich bodies of scholarship; this volume of essays nicely melds them together. . . . A fascinating collection that ponders higher education dynamics through the lens of race. . . . The broad range of topics tickles the palate and promises an exciting research agenda.

--Richard J. Altenbaugh, The Historian


-Both the histories of higher education and of African American education have flourished in recent years, producing rich bodies of scholarship; this volume of essays nicely melds them together. . . . A fascinating collection that ponders higher education dynamics through the lens of race. . . . The broad range of topics tickles the palate and promises an exciting research agenda.-

--Richard J. Altenbaugh, The Historian

Author Bio
Marybeth Gasman is a professor of higher education at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work explores philanthropy and historically black colleges, black leadership, contemporary fundraising issues at black colleges, and African-American giving. Roger L. Geiger is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education and former head of the higher education program at the Pennsylvania State University. He is also senior scientist at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education. He has edited the Perspectives on the History of Higher Education series since 1993.