Ebony & ivy : race, slavery, and the troubled history of America's universities /
Wilder, Craig Steven,author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-408) and index.
Prologue: A Connecticut Yankee at an ancient Indian mound -- Slavery and the rise of the American college: The edges of the empire ; "Bonfires of the Negros" ; "The very name of a West-Indian" ; Ebony and ivy -- Race and the rise of the American college: Whitening the promised land ; "All students & all Americans" ; "On the bodily and mental inferiority of the Negro" ; "Could they be sent back to Africa" -- Epilogue: Cotton comes to Harvard.
Discrimination in higher education
Racism in education
Slavery
Universities and colleges
African Americans History.
Minorities