Full Description
From the United States' earliest days, African Americans considered education essential for their freedom and progress. Linda M. 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.
Contents
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
