The Education Of Blacks In The South Summary

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In the book, The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935, by James D. Anderson writes about the history of how Blacks were educated and how it applies in a political, cultural and economic aspect. This book shows how committed Black people were to receive an education from the Revolution (1860) until the Great Depression (1935). African Americans fought very hard for their right to an education that they even went as far as teaching children underground. Because the Blacks lacked power in the states, the whites had the capability of controlling what the Black children learned in elementary, secondary, normal, and college education. Anderson goes on to write about how as the idea of slaves and owners disintegrated people such as abolitionists, generous whites, and missionary societies supported the Blacks in their fight for an education. In the chapter about normal and country training schools he states, “…the southern states were making little effort to provide public support for the training of black teachers,” (Anderson 136). This may not come as a surprise, but there were philanthropists that were active in trying to transform black secondary and normal education facilities. Anderson concludes with the discussion of the…show more content…
Anderson does an incredible job of displaying the extent to which Caucasian citizens went in order to assure the African Americans of the colonies never attained full educational rights. The White people whom Anderson writes about are from both the North and the South, making his argument stronger by exhibiting that the oppression was coming from both sides. In many sections of the book, he exhibits how Northern philanthropists tried to keep their agenda hidden. This scheme they had consisted of keeping the African Americans subservient to all

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