Bricks without Straw: Missionary-Sponsored Black Higher Education in the Post-Emancipation Era.

Brazzell, Johnetta Cross

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Publication Date: 1992

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Bricks without Straw: Missionary-Sponsored Black Higher Education in the Post-Emancipation Era.

Brazzell, Johnetta Cross

Journal of Higher Education, v63 n1 p26-49 Jan-Feb 1992

The history of Spelman Seminary (Georgia) for African-American females is reviewed as an example of education as an instrument of socialization for southern women to their prescribed roles. The discussion covers the missionary role, Georgia in the 1880s, the institutional mission, school founding, debate over classical versus industrial roles of education, the curriculum, and faculty. (DB)

Descriptors: Black Colleges, Church Related Colleges, Educational History, Educational Philosophy, Higher Education, Role Perception, Single Sex Colleges, Socialization, Vocational Education, Womens Education

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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