Education of the African American Adult: An Historical Overview / Edition 1

by Leo Mcgee, Harvey Neufeldt

Overview

Education has been highly valued in the African American community. Despite the fact that adult education in particular looms large in the history of African American education, little mention is made of it in most standard histories of American or adult education.

Part I highlights adult education efforts in antebellum society. L. H. Whiteaker focuses on the education of those slaves trained as skilled craftsmen and those who taught themselves to read and write. Elizabeth L. Ihle describes the efforts of nineteenth-century African Americans to improve their education. The Civil War and Reconstruction periods witnessed a flurry of educational activities within the African American community, as demonstrated by the chapters in part II. Bobby L. Lovett describes the heightened educational efforts during the Civil War years; Ronald E. Butchart analyzes conflicting goals in black adult education as he examines five institutions and a distinctive curriculum that evolved during the 1860s. Part III focuses on institutional, governmental, and voluntary association efforts in black adult education since the 1890s. Felix James describes the activities of Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver. Michael Fultz highlights the emphasis of the Negro periodical press on service, education, social uplift, justice, and morality. V. P. Franklin, Lillian S. Williams, and Cynthia Neverdon-Morton focus on adult education activities of and programs initiated by governmental and black fraternal, religious, and voluntary associations during the early twentieth century. Literacy education, an important component of black adult education, is the subject of two essays by James E. Akenson and Harvey G. Neufeldt and by Sandra B. Oldendorf. Governmental programs for adult education are analyzed in the final two essays by Nancy L. Grant and Edwin Hamilton. The story of black adult education is a remarkable tale of a minority community confronting the issue of race. This volume would be a helpful resource for those interested in education, American history, African American studies, and sociology. further interest and research on this topic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313259722
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/24/1990
Series:	Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets , #13
Pages:	285
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

HARVEY G. NEUFELDT is Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Tennessee Technical University. He is coauthor of Education of the Black Adult in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1985) and has contributed chapters to Religion and Morality in American Schooling and Education and the Rise of the New South.

LEO MCGEE is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Education at Tennessee Tech University. He is the coeditor of The Rural Black Landowner: Endangered Species (Greenwood Press) and Mini-Grants for Classroom Teachers, and the coauthor of Education of the Black Adult in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood Press, 1985).

Table of Contents

Preface
Black Adult Education before 1860
Adult Education within the Slave Community by L. H. Whiteaker
Education of Free Blacks before the Civil War by Elizabeth L. Ihle
Black Adult Education during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Black Adult Education during the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Bobby L. Lovett
Schooling for Freed People: The Education of Adult Freedmen, 1861- 1871 by Ronald E. Butchart
Black Adult Education, 1890-1980
Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver: A Tandem of Adult Educators at Tuskegee by Felix James
Education in the Black Monthly Periodical Press, 1900-1910 by Michael Fultz
Education for Life: Adult Education Programs for African Americans in Northern Cities, 1900-1942 by V. P. Franklin
Black Communities and Adult Education: YMCA, YWCA, and Fraternal Organizations by Lillian S. Williams
African American Women and Adult Education in the South, 1895-1925 by Cynthia Neverdon-Morton
The Southern Literacy Campaign for Black Adults in the Early Twentieth Century by James E. Akenson and Harvey G. Neufeldt
Literacy and Voting: The Story of South Carolina Sea Island Citizenship Schools by Sandra B. Oldendorf
Adult Education for Blacks during the New Deal and World War II: The Federal Programs by Nancy L. Grant
Post-World War II Manpower Training Programs by Edwin Hamilton
Historiographical Essay
Index