| Description |
1 online resource (222 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction. "This Right to Grow": Higher Education as Both a Human and Civil Right; Part 1. Educational Attainment; 1. "A Plea for the Oppressed": Educational Strivings, Pre-1865; 2. "The Crown of Culture": Educational Attainment, 1865-1910; 3. "Beating Onward, Ever Onward": A Critical Mass, 1910-1954; 4. "Reminiscences of School Life": Six College Memoirs; 5. "I Make Myself Heard": Comparative Collegiate Experiences; 6. "The Third Step": Doctoral Degrees, 1921-1954 |
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Part 2. Intellectual Legacy7. Research: "The Yard Stick of Great Thinkers"; 8. Teaching: "That Which Relieves Their Hunger"; 9. Service: "A Beneficent Force"; 10. Living Legacies-Black Women in Higher Education, Post-1954; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Evans chronicles the stories of African American women who struggled for and won access to formal education, beginning in 1850, when Lucy Stanton, a student at Oberlin College, earned the first college diploma conferred on an African American woman. In the century between the Civil War and the civil rights movement, a critical increase in black women's educational attainment mirrored unprecedented national growth in American education. Evans reveals how black women demanded space as students and asserted their voices as educators--despite such barriers as violence, discrimination, and oppressi |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
African American women -- Education (Higher) -- History
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African American women -- Education (Higher)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780813063058 |
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0813063051 |
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