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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 ...
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 ...
Mary Jane Patterson (September 12, 1844 – September 24, 1894) was an American educator born to a previously enslaved mother and a freeborn father. [1] She is notable because she is claimed to be the first African-American woman to receive a B.A degree. In 1862, she completed the four-year 'gentlemen's course' at Oberlin College. [2]
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
African American literature has both been influenced by the great African diasporic heritage [7] and shaped it in many countries. It has been created within the larger realm of post-colonial literature, although scholars distinguish between the two, saying that "African American literature differs from most post-colonial literature in that it is written by members of a minority community who ...
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 ...
Fanny Jackson Coppin (October 15, 1837 – January 21, 1913) was an American educator, missionary and lifelong advocate for female higher education.One of the first Black alumnae of Oberlin College, she served as principal of the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia and became the first African American school superintendent in the United States.
Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection of Afro-American History and Literature Vivian Gordon Harsh (May 27, 1890 – August 17, 1960) was an American librarian . Harsh is noted as the Chicago Public Library (CPL) system's first African American librarian, being assigned to the position on February 26, 1924.