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1. Higher Ambitions for Freedom: The Politics of Public Black Colleges in the South, 1865-1915

Description:: During the 1870s and 1880s, state governments in the former slaveholding South established eleven public institutions for black higher learning. Given the volatile, impoverished, often repressive climate of the region, how did black political and educational leaders mobilize to expand state support for black higher education? Furthermore, how did they...
Keyword:: Reconstruction, Jim Crow, African American, Education, Higher education, and Southern states
Subject:: American history, Black history, and Education history
Creator:: Soares, Leigh Alexandra
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_662076 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14626