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An African-American teacher. African-American teachers educated African Americans and taught each other to read during slavery in the South. People who were enslaved ran small schools in secret, since teaching those enslaved to read was a crime (see Slave codes). Meanwhile, in the North, African Americans worked alongside Whites. Many ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American educators. It includes educators that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Contents
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002. A similar book was written by Columbus Salley.
Sydney Brenner (1927–2019), South African biologist, who won the 2002 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine. Allan McLeod Cormack (1924–1998), South African-born American physicist, who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Mulalo Doyoyo (born 1970), South African professor, engineer and inventor.
The History of African-American education deals with the public and private schools at all levels used by African Americans in the United States and for the related policies and debates. Black schools, also referred to as "Negro schools" and " colored schools ", were racially segregated schools in the United States that originated in the ...
In this memoir released during the Reconstruction era, American educator Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) shares his experience of being born into slavery in the period leading up to the Civil War ...
Founded to show that separate but equal educational institutions for African Americans were viable, and that racial integration, mandated by Brown v. Board of Education , was unnecessary. Closed shortly after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ; nominally merged with St. Petersburg Junior College (today St. Petersburg College ).
Opponents of the curriculum pointed out several issues at a Florida Board of Education meeting last year and said it leaves out Florida’s role in slavery and the oppression of African Americans.