Sarah Caroline Thuesen
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807839300
- eISBN:
- 9781469612744
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9780807839300.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
In the battle of equality education, African Americans first had to challenge the assumptions made by whites about black intellectual inferiority. This chapter focuses on the achievements that black ...
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In the battle of equality education, African Americans first had to challenge the assumptions made by whites about black intellectual inferiority. This chapter focuses on the achievements that black community leaders made in the school equality battle. It also highlights two important curricular reform movements that uncovered the barriers to curricular equalization in the Jim Crow South. The chapter further explores why state school leaders were willing to make educational equality concessions and why this victory, in the state's early black public high school development context, was initially more figurative than absolute. The chapter then discusses the arguments made by the black educators and historic movements during the 1920s in the context of cultural citizenship. The chapter concludes with a detailed discussion of Negro jobs, vocational training, and struggles for economic citizenship.Less
In the battle of equality education, African Americans first had to challenge the assumptions made by whites about black intellectual inferiority. This chapter focuses on the achievements that black community leaders made in the school equality battle. It also highlights two important curricular reform movements that uncovered the barriers to curricular equalization in the Jim Crow South. The chapter further explores why state school leaders were willing to make educational equality concessions and why this victory, in the state's early black public high school development context, was initially more figurative than absolute. The chapter then discusses the arguments made by the black educators and historic movements during the 1920s in the context of cultural citizenship. The chapter concludes with a detailed discussion of Negro jobs, vocational training, and struggles for economic citizenship.
