Reparation and reconciliation
Subtitle: the rise and fall of integrated higher education
By: Christi M. Smith
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781469630687; 9781469630694
Subjects: Segregation in higher education; Education (Higher); Coeducation; Women; African Americans; History
Description: "This is the first book to reveal the nineteenth-century struggle for racial integration on U.S. college campuses. As the Civil War ended, the need to heal the scars of slavery, expand the middle class, and reunite the nation engendered a dramatic interest in higher education by policy makers, voluntary associations, and African Americans more broadly. Formed in 1846 by Protestant abolitionists, the American Missionary Association united a network of colleges open to all, designed especially to educate African American and white students together, both male and female. Case studies at three colleges--Berea College, Oberlin College, and Howard University--reveal the strategies administrators used and the challenges they faced as higher education quickly developed as a competitive social field"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A racial reckoning on campus?; title: Education follows the flag; title: Inside interracial colleges, 1837-1880; title: From cause to common charity : off-campus pressures; title: The "perils" of gender coeducation; title: A scarcity of great men : educating leaders at Howard and Oberlin; title: A new constituency for Berea; title: Conclusion: from coeducation to the consecration of difference.