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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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New Directions in Southern History
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New directions in southern history.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Education Goals throughout the Edmistons' Career -- Industrial Education and Symbolic Home Building in the Congo Free State, 1898-1907 -- Congo Missionaries and the Perpetuation of Manual Labor,1908-1936 -- Specific Educational and Ministry Strategies -- Implementing Historically Black Education Strategies at the Presbyterian Congo Mission, 1918-1919 -- Neighbors Recognizing and Redefining Identities in the Belgian Congo, 1916-1935 -- On the Perimeter of Two Freedom Struggles, 1930-1936 -- Conclusion: Changes in Colonial Politics and School Policies, 1936-1963. |
| Summary |
"In this vital transnational study, Kimberly D. Hill critically analyzes the colonial history of central Africa through the perspective of two African American missionaries: Alonzo Edmiston and Althea Brown Edmiston. The pair met and fell in love while working as a part of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission-an operation which aimed to support the people of the Congo Free State suffering forced labor and brutal abuses under Belgian colonial governance. They discovered a unique kinship amid the country's growing human rights movement and used their familiarity with industrial education, popularized by Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute, as a way to promote Christianity and offer valuable services to local people. From 1902 through 1941, the Edmistons designed their mission projects to promote community building, to value local resources, and to incorporate the perspectives of the African participants. They focused on childcare, teaching, translation, construction, and farming-ministries that required constant communication with their Kuba neighbors. Hill concludes with an analysis of how the Edmistons' pedagogy influenced government-sponsored industrial schools in the Belgian Congo through the 1950s. A Higher Education illuminates not only the work of African American missionaries-who are often overlooked and under-studied-but also the transnational implications of black education in the South. Significantly, Hill also addresses the role of black foreign missionaries in the early civil rights movement, an argument that suggests an underexamined connection between earlier nineteenth-century Pan-Africanisms and activism in the interwar era"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Edmiston, A. L. (Alonzo Lmore), 1879-1954.
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Edmiston, Althea Brown, 1874-1937.
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Edmiston, Althea Brown, 1874-1937. |
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American Presbyterian Congo Mission.
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American Presbyterian Congo Mission. |
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African American missionaries -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
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African American missionaries. |
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Congo (Democratic Republic) |
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Missions -- Educational work -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
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Missions -- Educational work. |
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Education -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History.
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Education. |
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History. |
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African American universities and colleges -- Influence.
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African American universities and colleges. |
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Kuba (African people) -- Missions.
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Kuba (African people) |
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Missions. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hill, Kimberly D., 1980- Higher Education. Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2020] 9780813179810 (DLC) 2020022861 (OCoLC)1155483956 |
| ISBN |
9780813179810 (electronic book) |
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0813179815 (electronic book) |
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0813179815 |
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