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To Advance the Race: Black Women's Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s

Name: To Advance the Race: Black Women's Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s
Brand: University of Illinois Press
SKU: 9780252087837
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Contributors:

Linda M. Perkins

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History, Education

Book Subcategory:

African American & Black, Women, History

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Release Date:

2024-04-09

ISBN 13:

9780252087837

Weight:

1.4 lbs

Size:

9.20 x 6.10 x 1.30 inches

Pages:

408

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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.

About the Author
Linda M. Perkins is a professor and the director of Applied Gender Studies Department at Claremont Graduate University. She is the author of Fanny Jackson Coppin and the Institute for Colored Youth, 1865-1902.

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