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The term "miseducation" was coined by Carter G. Woodson to describe the process of systematically depriving African Americans of their knowledge of self. Woodson believed that miseducation was the root of the problems of the masses of the African-American community and that if the masses of the African-American community were given the correct knowledge and education from the beginning, they ...
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 ...
Afrocentrism is a worldview that is centered on the history of people of African descent or a view that favors it over non-African civilizations. [1] It is in some respects a response to Eurocentric attitudes about African people and their historical contributions.
Midas Chanawe outlined in his historical survey of the development of Afrocentricity how experiences of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Middle Passage, and legal prohibition of literacy, shared by enslaved African-Americans, followed by the experience of dual cultures (e.g., Africanisms, Americanisms), resulted in some African-Americans re-exploring their African cultural heritage rather than ...
Omenala Griot Afrocentric Teaching Museum is an Afrocentric teaching museum in the West End neighborhood of Atlanta. It was founded in 1992. It was founded in 1992. The museum offers visitors a "hands-on" African American experience by seeing, hearing, saying, touching and doing.
They were primarily founded by Protestant religious groups, until the Second Morrill Act of 1890 required educationally segregated states (all in the South) to provide African American, public higher-education schools (i.e. state funded schools) in order to receive the Act's benefits (19, generally larger institutions, fall under this Act).
The terms "Afrocentric", "African-centered", and "Afrocentrist" may refer to: Afrocentrism , popular culture and ideology focused on the history and culture of black Africans Afrocentricity , a research method and methodological paradigm used in Black studies to center black Africans as subjects and agents within their own historical and ...
Pages in category "Historically segregated African-American schools in the United States" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .