Dangerous Donations
Subtitle: Northern Philanthropy and Southern Black Education, 1902-1930
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: July 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780826212269
Subjects: Black studies; Organization & management of education; Social history; First World War, 1914-1918; Inter-war period, 1918-1939; c 1900 - c 1914; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Economics Of Education; Education Of Black Students; United States - 20th Century; Sociology; Philanthropy & Charity; Education; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Southern States; African Americans; Endowments; Finance; History
Description: "Eric Anderson and Alfred A. Moss, Jr., offer a new examination of the impact of northern philanthropy on southern black education, giving special attention to the "Ogden movement," the General Education Board, the Rosenwald Fund, and the Episcopal American Church Institute for Negroes. Anderson and Moss present significant reinterpretations of key figures in African American education, including Booker T. Washington, William H. Baldwin, Jr., George Foster Peabody, and Thomas Jesse Jones."--BOOK JACKET.

"Dangerous Donations explores both the great influence of the philanthropic foundations and the important limitations on their power."--BOOK JACKET.