Stand and Prosper (eBook)

Private Black Colleges and Their Students

Humphrey Doermann, Henry N. Drewry (Autoren)

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2012
368 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4317-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Henry N. Drewry is Senior Advisor to the Mellon Foundation, where he was a program officer from 1988 to 1997. He served on the Board of Trustees of Talladega College, and has taught at both the college and high-school level. He was Director of the Teacher Preparation Program and Lecturer in History at Princeton University. Humphrey Doermann is Assistant to the President and Research Associate in Economics at Macalester College. He was Director of Admissions and chief staff budget officer for the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He served as President of the Bush Foundation, and is the author of two books on college admissions and financial aid.

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Stand and Prosper is the first authoritative history in decades of black colleges and universities in America. It tells the story of educational institutions that offered, and continue to offer, African Americans a unique opportunity to transcend the legacy of slavery while also bearing its burden. Henry Drewry and Humphrey Doermann present an up-to-date and comprehensive assessment of their past, present, and possible future. Black colleges fully got off the ground only after the Civil War--more than two centuries after higher education formally began in British North America. Despite horrendous obstacles, they survived and even proliferated until well past the mid-twentieth century. As the authors show, however, the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education brought them to a crucial juncture. While validating the rights of blacks to pursue opportunities outside racial and class lines, it drew the future of these institutions into doubt. By the mid-1970s black colleges competed with other colleges for black students--a welcome expansion of choices for African-American youth but a huge recruitment challenge for black colleges. The book gradually narrows its focus from a general history to a look at the development of forty-five private black colleges in recent decades. It describes their varied responses to the changes of the last half-century and documents their influence in the development of the black middle class. The authors underscore the vital importance of government in supporting these institutions, from the Freedman's Bureau during Reconstruction to federal aid in our own time. Stand and Prosper offers a fascinating portrait of the distinctive place black colleges and universities have occupied in American history as crucibles of black culture, and of the formidable obstacles they must surmount if they are to continue fulfilling this important role.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.3.2012
• Zusatzinfo: 62 tables. 2 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen ► Sekundarstufe I
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: academic degree • Accreditation • Affirmative Action • African Americans • alumnus • American Missionary Association • americans • Attendance • Bachelor's degree • Bethune-Cookman University • Bishop College • black people • Black school • Bluefield State College • Brown University • Brown v. Board of Education • Career • Clark Atlanta University • College Board • Curriculum • desegregation • Dillard University • doctorate • Doctor of Philosophy • dormitory • Education • Faculty (academic staff) • federal student aid • Financial endowment • fisk university • freedman • Freedmen's Bureau • freshman • Fundraising • Graduate school • Graduation • Hampton University • Harvard College • Harvard University • higher education • Higher Education Research Institute • Historically Black Colleges and Universities • howard university • income • Institution • Johnson C. Smith University • junior college • Knoxville College • Legislation • Liberal arts education • Major (academic) • medical school • Morehouse College • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • Normal school • Oberlin College • of education • percentage • Plessy v. Ferguson • Princeton University • Private School • private university • Profession • Public institution (United States) • Public school (United Kingdom) • Public university • Racial segregation • Racism • Requirement • salary • Scholarship • secondary education • Secondary School • Slavery • Social Science • Southern Association of Colleges and Schools • spelman college • state school • Stillman College • Student • student loan • Students' union • Subsidy • Talladega College • Tax • Teacher • Texas College • Title III • Tougaloo College • Tuition payments • tuskegee university • undergraduate education • United Negro College Fund • University • University and college admission • University of Chicago • vocational education • W. E. B. Du Bois • white americans • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4317-0 / 1400843170
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4317-6 / 9781400843176