ERIC Number: ED281959
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1986
Pages: 14
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ISBN: N/A
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Black Women's Academic Education in the South. History of Black Women's Education in the South, 1865-Present. Instructional Modules for Educators, Modules III and IV.
Ihle, Elizabeth L.
This document is the combined third and fourth modules of a series of four. It is designed to help educators learn more about how the double biases of sex and race have affected the quality of black women's high school and college education in southern schools since the Civil War. The following topics are discussed: (1) education of black women before the Civil War; (2) the purpose of black's academic education; (3) the founding of black colleges; (4) founding of private and public high schools for blacks; (5) academic education in high schools and colleges from 1900 to 1950; (6) extracurricular life in high school and college; and (7) black women in academic education today. Also included are short articles on Mary McLeod Bethune, secondary vocational training, pay inequity, and college women of Atlanta University in 1900. Questions for discussion and activities for enrichment, and a bibliography are included. (PS)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Black Education, Black History, Extracurricular Activities, Females, High Schools, Postsecondary Education, Private Education, Racial Bias, Reconstruction Era, Regional Characteristics, School Segregation, Sex Stereotypes, United States History, Womens Education, Womens History, Womens Studies
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Historical Materials
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: Women's Educational Equity Act Program (ED), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: James Madison Univ., Harrisonburg, VA.
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