Minds of the New South: Higher Education in Black and White, 1880-1915.

This essay discusses the history of higher education in the Southern States of the U.S., focusing on differences in education between African Americans and Whites during the post-Reconstruction period. The educational ideas of educator Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama; Ameri...

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Publicado en:	Southern Quarterly Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 8 - 35
Autor principal:	Mohr, Clarence L.
Formato:	Essay
Publicado:	University of Southern Mississippi Summer2009
Materias:	Education Education of African Americans Turn of the century (19th-20th century) Segregation laws Segregation in higher education Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 Haygood, Atticus G. (Atticus Greene), 1839-1896 Southern United States history, 1865-1951 Social conditions in the Southern States, 1865-1945 Nineteenth century 21st century (Literary period) Southern States
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Sumario:	This essay discusses the history of higher education in the Southern States of the U.S., focusing on differences in education between African Americans and Whites during the post-Reconstruction period. The educational ideas of educator Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama; American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South Atticus Greene Haygood; English professor Charles Foster Smith of Vanderbilt University; and African American author W. E. B. Du Bois are explored. The essay also considers subjects including segregation, Jim Crow laws, and industrial education.