Title In pursuit of knowledge : black women and educational activism in antebellum America / Kabria Baumgartner

Published New York : New York University Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (x, 286 pages) : illustrations Series Early American places Early American places. Contents Prayer and protest at the Canterbury Female Seminary -- Race and reform at the Young Ladies' Domestic Seminary -- Women teachers in New York City -- Race, gender, and the American high school -- Black girlhood and equal school rights -- Character education and the antebellum classroom -- Conclusion. Going forward Summary 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, African American girls and women faced numerous obstacles--from threats and harassment to violence. For them, education was a daring undertaking that put them in harm's way. Yet bold and brave young women such as Sarah Harris, Sarah Parker Remond, Rosetta Morrison, Susan Paul, and Sarah Mapps Douglass persisted. In Pursuit of Knowledge argues that African American girls and women strategized, organized, wrote, and protested for equal school rights--not just for themselves, but for all. Their activism gave rise to a new vision of womanhood: the purposeful woman, who was learned, active, resilient, and forward-thinking. Moreover, these young women set in motion equal-school-rights victories at the local and state level, and laid the groundwork for further action to democratize schools in twentieth-century America. In this thought-provoking book, Baumgartner demonstrates that the confluence of race and gender has shaped the long history of school desegregation in the United States right up to the present Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost platform, viewed October 17, 2023) SUBJECT Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd Subject African American women educators -- History -- 19th century African American women political activists -- History -- 19th century African Americans -- Education -- History -- 19th century African Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century HISTORY -- United States -- 19th century. African Americans -- Social conditions African American women educators African American women political activists African Americans -- Education Race relations Schwarze Frau Soziale Situation Aktivistin Ethnische Beziehungen Erzieherin SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781479871377 1479871370

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