To Advance the Race: Black Women's Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s

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Linda M. Perkins

To Advance the Race

Black Women's Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s

Linda M. Perkins

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University of Illinois Press
09 April 2024

Gender studies: women; Black & Asian studies; Higher & further education, tertiary education

From the United States' earliest days, African Americans considered education essential for their freedom and progress. Linda M. Perkins’s study ranges across educational and geographical settings to tell the stories of Black women and girls as students, professors, and administrators. Beginning with early efforts and the establishment of abolitionist colleges, Perkins follows the history of Black women's post–Civil War experiences at elite white schools and public universities in northern and midwestern states. Their presence in Black institutions like Howard University marked another advancement, as did Black women becoming professors and administrators. But such progress intersected with race and education in the postwar era. As gender questions sparked conflict between educated Black women and Black men, it forced the former to contend with traditional notions of women’s roles even as the 1960s opened educational opportunities for all African Americans.

A first of its kind history, To Advance the Race is an enlightening look at African American women and their multi-generational commitment to the ideal of education as a collective achievement.

By: Linda M. Perkins
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 626g
ISBN: 9780252087837
ISBN 10: 0252087836
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 09 April 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Introduction Part One Chapter 1. Education for “Race Uplift”: History of Black Education in the North Prior to the Civil War Chapter 2. Abolitionist Colleges Part Two Chapter 3. The College Bred Black Women at Predominately White Institutions in Post-Civil War Era Chapter 4. Major Public Universities and Black Women in the Heartland Part Three Chapter 5. Black Women and Historically Black Colleges in the South Chapter 6. Lucy Diggs Slowe and Deans of Women’s at Historically Black Colleges Chapter 7. Deans of Women After Slowe Part Four Chapter 8. The Black Woman Professoriate Chapter Nine. Education and Marginality: The Conclusion Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

Linda M. Perkins is a professor and the director of Applied Gender Studies Department at Claremont Graduate University. She is the author of Fanny Jackson Coppin and the Institute for Colored Youth, 1865–1902.