Transcript Chapter Six
School & Society: Chapter 6 Diversity and Equity: Schooling and African Americans Click to edit Master title style • Click to edit Master text styles Chapter Six – Second level • Third level – Fourth level » Fifth level Diversity and Equity: Schooling and African Americans 1 School & Society: Chapter 6 Diversity and Equity: Schooling and African Americans Click to edit Master title style Reconstruction 1865-1877 •• Click to edit Master text styles Thirteenth Amendment – Second level • Freedmen's • Third level Bureau – Fourth level • Rebuilding the South without slavery » Fifth level at its center • Higher education and political power for African Americans 2 School & Society: Chapter 6 Diversity and Equity: Schooling and African Americans Click to edit Master title style Redemption 1877 • Click to edit Master text styles • White southerners regain control – Second level • White laws and voting • Thirdsupremacy level – Fourth level requirements for blacks established » Fifth level • Destroyed African American gains of Reconstruction 3 School & Society: Chapter 6 Diversity and Equity: Schooling and African Americans Click to edit Master title style African American Schooling •• Click to edit Master text styles Vague references to education in state constitutions give way to frameworks for universal – Second level public schooling • Third level in Reconstruction – Fourthbrought level • Redemption renewed efforts to shift » Fifth level resources to white schools, strip blacks of voting rights, and reconfigure constitutions • Black communities, churches, and private citizens supported schools while disparities increased, beginning around 1890 4 School & Society: Chapter 6 Diversity and Equity: Schooling and African Americans Click to edit Master title style Booker T. Washington’s Career •• Click to edit Master text styles The Myth – Second level advanced public education in black communities • Third level – Fourth “lifting veillevel of ignorance from Negro race” » Fifth level • The Reality Washington era featured worst treatment of black public education since slavery supported state-enforced illiteracy took accommodationist stance 5 School & Society: Chapter 6 Diversity and Equity: Schooling and African Americans Click to edit Master title style Washington’s Perception of African •American Click to edit Master text styles “Inferiority” and Opportunity – Second level evolution • Racial(Darwinian) • Thirdneed level to “evolve”; should be grateful for Blacks – Fourth level advantages. » Fifth level • Blacks unfit to vote • Blacks should avoid confronting racial prejudice • Hard labor and accumulation of property the key to success • Natural laws of economics would not tolerate 6 racism School & Society: Chapter 6 Diversity and Equity: Schooling and African Americans Click to edit Master title style W. E. B. Du Bois •• Click to edit Masteroftext styles of Opposed stifling criticisms – Second level Washington and his followers • Third level level • Spoke– Fourth out against continued » Fifth level oppression of black Southerners and prejudice in the North • Self-assertion rather than acquiescence 7 School & Society: Chapter 6 Diversity and Equity: Schooling and African Americans Click to edit Master title style Concluding Remarks •• Click to edit text styles The struggle overMaster African American schooling, and the distinctions – Second between level Washington’s and Du Bois’s perspectives, highlight enduring concerns: • Third level schooling for social stability or a free society? – Fourth level schooling» for or intellectual growth? Fifthemployment level schooling for social reform or individual human development? schooling that emphasizes commonalities or differences? schooling in whose interests? 8 School & Society: Chapter 6 Diversity and Equity: Schooling and African Americans Click to edit Master title style Developing your Professional Vocabulary •• Click to edit Master text styles black codes • NAACP – Second The Crisis level • Third W. E. B. Dulevel Bois – Fourth level Freedmen's» Bureau Fifth level historically black colleges • Mississippi Plan • • • • • Reconstruction • Redemption • 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments • Tuskegee Institution • Booker T. Washington 9