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As part of her requirements for graduation, she wrote a sociology thesis, entitled Princeton-Educated Blacks and the Black Community. [47] [48] She researched her thesis by sending a questionnaire to African-American graduates, asking that they specify when and how comfortable they were with their race prior to their enrollment at Princeton and how they felt about it when they were a student ...
Fully indexed, full-text database of monographs, essays, articles, speeches and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the early 19th century to 1975.
Welcome to your guide for exploring the history of African American primary and secondary education in the United States from 1740 to 1974. Use the links below and in the left menu to discover secondary, primary, and archival sources available from the Harvard Library and beyond.
African American Political Thought offers an unprecedented philosophical history of thinkers from the African American community and African diaspora who have addressed the central issues of political life: democracy, race, violence, liberation, solidarity, and mass political action.
Given the climate of the late nineteenth century, when any educated person of African descent was expected to use his or her education to help other blacks, to depart completely for the white world was considered a form of abandonment as well as a form of racial self hatred.
Racial segregation was a system derived from the efforts of white Americans to keep African Americans in a subordinate status by denying them equal access to public facilities and ensuring that blacks lived apart from whites.
African Americans - Education, Upward Mobility, Leadership: From 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington, a formerly enslaved man who had built Tuskegee Institute in Alabama into a major center of industrial training for African American youths, was the country’s dominant Black leader.
