Reparation and Reconciliation

The Rise and Fall of Integrated Higher Education

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ID20026020
AuthorsChristi Michelle Smith
Year2016
Pages316
Publication date2016-12-05
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueReparation and reconciliation (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630687.001.0001
OpenAlexW4243160984
Open LibraryOL27228236M
ISBN9781469630687
LanguageEN
Citations received5

Reparation and Reconciliation 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. The AMA and its affiliates envisioned integrated campuses as a training ground to produce a new leadership class for a racially integrated democracy. 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

Democracy · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · Racial integration · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · White (mutation) · Academic Freedom and Politics · Gender Studies · Law · Public Administration · Race, History, and American Society · 19th century · African americans · Coeducation · Education · Education (Higher) · History · Segregation in education · Segregation in higher education · united states · Women

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