African American Educational Thought and Activism
by
Ojeya Cruz Banks, Eric A. Hurley, Karen A. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Before the founding of the United States, enslaved Africans advocated literacy as a method of emancipation. During the Reconstruction period after the Civil War, blacks were at the forefront of the debates on the establishment of public schools in the South. In fact, a wealth of ideas about the role...