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1 online resource (455 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Landmarks and Milestones; Personal Testimonies; Tracts and Dialogues from Thomas Bacon's Sermons Addressedto Masters and Servants; In Secret Places, Acquiring Literacy in Slave Communities; Chapter VII from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave; Slave Testimony; Letter from a Female Reader to the Editor of Freedom's Journal 1827; Letter to Samuel May, Jr., General Agent of the American Anti-SlaverySociety, 1854; "The Schoolmarms" Excerpted from We Are Your Sisters; Boyhood Days from Up from Slavery. |
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Black Colleges from American Higher Education, A HistoryChapter VIII; Harvard in the Last Decade of the 19th Century from The Autobiographyof W.E.B. Du Bois; "Schaal" ; "Let Down Your Bucket"; A Life of Learning; A Family Legacy from The Measure of Our Success, A Letter to My Children and Yours; Alma Mater from The Autobiography of Malcolm X; The Introduction from Vernon Can Read! A Memoir; Interview with Melba Patillo Beals (A Member of the Little Rock Nine)Scholastic, Inc; The Trial from In My Place; UGA; Reflections of Family and Education from Brother West; School Days. |
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Two Positives from Gifted HandsLitigations; Federal Court Decisions, School Reform, and African AmericanEducation; Intellectual Perspectives; The Quest for 'Book Learning'; Epilogue; The Practical Value of Higher Education; The Talented Tenth; Book Reviews; A Book Review; American Values, Social Goals, and the Desegregated School; The African American High School Experience in Perspective; Marva Collins, Her Way; Twenty-Five Lessons for Life from The Measure of Our Success; The Religious Needs of Negro Students; Independent Neighborhood Schools; Relevance Remains; Fighting for Our Lives. |
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Maintaining Social Justice through Culturally Responsive ClassroomManagemenReflections on America's Academic Achievement Gaps; From DuBois to Obama; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
This book offers a history of African American education, while also serving as a companion text for teachers, students and researchers in cultural criticism, American and African American studies, postcolonialism, historiography, and psychoanalytics. Overall, it represents essential reading for scholars, critics, leaders of educational policy, and all others interested in ongoing discussions not only about the role of community, family, teachers and others in facilitating quality education for the citizenry, but also about ensuring the posterity of a society via equal access to, and attainmen. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Education -- History.
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African Americans -- Education. |
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History. |
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African Americans -- Social conditions -- History.
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African Americans -- Social conditions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Sheer, Lois Jamison.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ervin, Hazel Arnett. Community of voices on education and the african american experience. 1st unabridged. [Place of publication not identified] : Cambridge Scholars Publis, 2016 1443881163 9781443881166 (OCoLC)940003781 |
| ISBN |
9781443889551 (Electronic book (PDF format) |
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1443889555 |
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1443881163 |
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9781443881166 |
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