Tracing the first two decades of state-funded African American schools, Educational Reconstruction addresses the ways in which black Richmonders, black Mobilian
One of the leading historians of education in the United States here develops a powerful interpretation of the uses of history in educational reform and of the
This book presents a clear overview of the debates that surrounded the making of the 1944 Act, which affected every aspect of education in this country. It give
James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black schooling within a
From the late nineteenth century until World War I, a group of Columbia University students gathered under the mentorship of the renowned historian William Arch