The War and the Higher Education of Negro Women

In times of peace it is difficult for the average layman to think of manpower in terms of both men and women. In times of war, however, when the nation needs every available ounce of productive energy, and when women on so many fronts are taking the places of men, it seems illogical not to think of manpower as inclusive of all citizens without regard to sex or race. The struggle of women to achieve status in the American economy has been a long and sometimes discouraging and baffling effort. The idea that the woman's place is in the home is so deep-rooted, and the resistance of men to female competition so keen that the achievements of women in politics, in economics, in science have been won oft-times only because of superior qualifications and because of compensatory effort on the part of the socalled weaker sex. Negro women in their striving for a place have often had the additional barrier of color and oft-times poverty to surmount. In the light of the role which women play in our society and the role which they must increasingly play in our war time economy, it is an engaging task to investigate the effects of the war on the higher education of women-in effect, to investigate what the institutions of higher education are contributing to their students which will aid them in their adjustments to life. Chapman and Counts in the introductory statement of their Principles of Education1 state what the pupils would learn of those who teach. Sad to relate, the failure dramatizes the fact that we teachers oft-times are not able to answer the vital questions which students have in their. minds

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• Selected References on the American Negro in World War I and World War II

  Dorothy B Porter•The Journal of Negro Education•1943

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