Kabria Baumgartner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3734852 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kabria Baumgartner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kabria |
| FAMILY NAME | Baumgartner |
| SIGNATURE | BAUMGARTNER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3550-6995 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Black Voices of the Revolution
Even More Is Required
Low and stagnant teacher pay has been a perennial issue in the United States public school system since the early decades of the nineteenth century. Women teachers, then as now, confronted the issue head-on by organizing together. For example, women primary school teachers in Boston, Massachusetts successfully petitioned for more pay in 1835, but an emerging policy to pay women less ensured that such victories would be few and far between. Nevert…
Full and Impartial Justice”
In early nineteenth-century Boston, African American children and youth faced severe educational inequalities and inequities in the city's racially segregated public school system. In response, Robert Morris and other African American youth organized for change. This article traces their organizing efforts, from establishing a literary society to petitioning the Massachusetts state legislature. Their collective work resulted in the overthrow of r…
Maria Baldwin's Worlds
Upon Maria Baldwin's death on January 9, 1922, her family, friends, and students remembered her as maternal, gentle, gracious, poised, dignified, and selfless. She had dedicated forty years of her life to teaching at the Agassiz School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Today, that school bears her name. Outside of Cambridge, however, Baldwin is relatively unknown. Only a few personal records survive, making an exploration of her inner life inevitably …
In Pursuit of Knowledge
Uncovers the hidden role of girls and women in the desegregation of American education The story of school desegregation in the United States often begins in the mid-twentieth-century South. Drawing on archival sources and genealogical records, Kabria Baumgartner uncovers the story’s origins in the nineteenth-century Northeast and identifies a previously overlooked group of activists: African American girls and women. In their quest for education…
Women Teachers in New York City
Black Girlhood and Equal School Rights
Race, Gender, and the American High School
Introduction
Character Education and the Antebellum Classroom
Prayer and Protest at the Canterbury Female Seminary
Race and Reform at the Young Ladies’ Domestic Seminary
Conclusion
Searching for Sarah
Roberts v. City of Boston is a well-known legal case in the history of US education. In 1847, the Boston School Committee denied Sarah C. Roberts, a five-year-old African American girl, admission to the public primary school closest to her home. She was instead ordered to attend the all-black Abiel Smith School, about a half-mile walk from her home. In March 1848, Sarah's father, Benjamin, sued the city of Boston for denying Sarah the right to at…
Love and Justice
African Americans who pursued higher education in antebellum America often faced harassment and violence. Historians link the struggle over African American education with broader protest strategies, with African American men taking center stage. This essay enlarges the narrative on African American education and social protest by examining how young African American women students contested racism and white supremacy. Focusing on the controversy…
Be Your Own Man”
Historians have examined how social movements influenced African American student activism in mid-to-late twentieth century America. This essay extends the scholarship by telling the story of African American male student activists who led the fight for curricular reform at Amherst College, then an all-male liberal arts college in Massachusetts. This local story reveals that African American student activism was driven by social movements as well…
Expanding the History of the Black Studies Movement
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Education and Abolition
Some thirty years before Harriet Ann Jacobs opened the Jacobs Free School in Alexandria, Virginia in January 1864, one of her first students was her fifty-threeyear-old uncle, Fred. The seventeen-year-old Harriet appreciated her uncle's “most earnest desire to learn to read” and promised to teach him.1 As slaves, both teacher and student risked the punishment of “thirtynine lashes on [the] bare back” as well as imprisonment for violating North Ca…
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Education and Abolition
Some thirty years before Harriet Ann Jacobs opened the Jacobs Free School in Alexandria, Virginia in January 1864, one of her first students was her fifty-threeyear-old uncle, Fred. The seventeen-year-old Harriet appreciated her uncle's “most earnest desire to learn to read” and promised to teach him.1 As slaves, both teacher and student risked the punishment of “thirtynine lashes on [the] bare back” as well as imprisonment for violating North Ca…
Expanding the History of the Black Studies Movement
Be Your Own Man”
Historians have examined how social movements influenced African American student activism in mid-to-late twentieth century America. This essay extends the scholarship by telling the story of African American male student activists who led the fight for curricular reform at Amherst College, then an all-male liberal arts college in Massachusetts. This local story reveals that African American student activism was driven by social movements as well…
Love and Justice
African Americans who pursued higher education in antebellum America often faced harassment and violence. Historians link the struggle over African American education with broader protest strategies, with African American men taking center stage. This essay enlarges the narrative on African American education and social protest by examining how young African American women students contested racism and white supremacy. Focusing on the controversy…
In Pursuit of Knowledge
Uncovers the hidden role of girls and women in the desegregation of American education The story of school desegregation in the United States often begins in the mid-twentieth-century South. Drawing on archival sources and genealogical records, Kabria Baumgartner uncovers the story’s origins in the nineteenth-century Northeast and identifies a previously overlooked group of activists: African American girls and women. In their quest for education…
Women Teachers in New York City
Black Girlhood and Equal School Rights
Race, Gender, and the American High School
Introduction
Character Education and the Antebellum Classroom
Prayer and Protest at the Canterbury Female Seminary
Race and Reform at the Young Ladies’ Domestic Seminary
Conclusion
Searching for Sarah
Roberts v. City of Boston is a well-known legal case in the history of US education. In 1847, the Boston School Committee denied Sarah C. Roberts, a five-year-old African American girl, admission to the public primary school closest to her home. She was instead ordered to attend the all-black Abiel Smith School, about a half-mile walk from her home. In March 1848, Sarah's father, Benjamin, sued the city of Boston for denying Sarah the right to at…
Maria Baldwin's Worlds
Upon Maria Baldwin's death on January 9, 1922, her family, friends, and students remembered her as maternal, gentle, gracious, poised, dignified, and selfless. She had dedicated forty years of her life to teaching at the Agassiz School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Today, that school bears her name. Outside of Cambridge, however, Baldwin is relatively unknown. Only a few personal records survive, making an exploration of her inner life inevitably …
Full and Impartial Justice”
In early nineteenth-century Boston, African American children and youth faced severe educational inequalities and inequities in the city's racially segregated public school system. In response, Robert Morris and other African American youth organized for change. This article traces their organizing efforts, from establishing a literary society to petitioning the Massachusetts state legislature. Their collective work resulted in the overthrow of r…
Even More Is Required
Low and stagnant teacher pay has been a perennial issue in the United States public school system since the early decades of the nineteenth century. Women teachers, then as now, confronted the issue head-on by organizing together. For example, women primary school teachers in Boston, Massachusetts successfully petitioned for more pay in 1835, but an emerging policy to pay women less ensured that such victories would be few and far between. Nevert…
Black Voices of the Revolution
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Race, History, and American Society (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · African american (5 works) · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms (5 works)