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Anchors of Reform: Public Black Colleges and Progressive Organizations in the Early 1900s
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Soares, Leigh – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2020
This paper examines the emergence of black progressive organizations and their relationship to public black colleges. Amid violent disfranchisement in the early 1900s, black education activists collaborated with other educators to host conferences, develop programs, and mobilize delegations on broader issues of concern to black Americans,…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Black Colleges, Educational History, African Americans