A Challenge to White, Southern Universities-An Argument for Including Negro History in the Curriculum

1968, AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OP MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., the AfroAmerican Association and an ad hoc group of graduate studen-ts, working independently, pressed the faculty and chancellor of a major Southern university for a number of meaningful reforms to ensure racial justice both inside and outside of the classroom. High among the priorities of both groups was the request that the university offer an undergraduate course and a graduate area in the history of black people in the United States. When talking with the graduate students, the chancellor was at least receptive to further discussion of the possibility of introducing Negro history into the curriculum, but he observed that the students needed to justify Negro history as an academic field. It is in response to the challenge of the chancellor and to those of similar persuasion at other universities that we write this paper

Argument (complex analysis) · Curriculum · Curriculum development · Higher education · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · White (mutation) · Critical Race Theory in Education · Law · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society

• To Give Up the Little Kingdoms

  Nadrea R Njoku, Eddie R Cole•The Journal of African American…•2024

  Add to list