In Pursuit of Knowledge : : Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America /

In Pursuit of Knowledge : : Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America / / Kabria Baumgartner.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Baumgartner, Kabria,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Early American Places ; 5
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction: Purposeful Womanhood
  • Part I. What Our Minds Have Long Desired
  • 1 Prayer and Protest at the Canterbury Female Seminary
  • 2 Race and Reform at the Young Ladies’ Domestic Seminary
  • 3 Women Teachers in New York City
  • Part II. God Protect the Right
  • 4 Race, Gender, and the American High School
  • 5 Black Girlhood and Equal School Rights
  • 6 Character Education and the Antebellum Classroom
  • Conclusion: Going Forward
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix A: List of Black Students at the Canterbury Female Seminary in Connecticut
  • Appendix B: List of Black Students at the Young Ladies’ Domestic Seminary in New York
  • Appendix C: List of Black Families in the Northeast
  • Appendix D: Physical Attacks on Black Schools in the Northeast, 1830–1845
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author

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