Each topic in this 2-volume encyclopedia is discussed as it relates to the education of African Americans. The entries provide a comprehensive overview of educational institutions at every level, from preschool through graduate and professional training, with special attention to historically and predominantly Black colleges and universities. The encyclopedia follows the struggle of African Americans to achieve equality in education-beginning among an enslaved population and evolving into the present-as the efforts of many remarkable individuals furthered this cause through court decisions and legislation.A unique appendix, “The Complete Bibliography of the Journal of Negro Education, 1932-2008,” includes listings of the tables of contents and reprinted articles on segregation, desegregation, and equality.Key FeaturesHighlights individuals, organizations, and publications that have had a significant impact on African American educationIncorporates discussions of curriculum, concepts, theories, and alternative models of education that facilitate the learning processAddresses the topics of gender and sexual orientation, religion, and the mediaKey ThemesAlternative educational modelsAssociations and organizationsBiographiesCollegiate educationCurriculumEconomicsGenderGraduate and professional educationHistorically Black colleges and universitiesLegal casesPrecollegiate EducationPsychology and human developmentPublic policyPublicationsReligious institutionsSegregation/DesegregationThe encyclopedia is valuable resource for students, educators, and scholars of education-and all readers who seek an understanding of African American education, both historically and in the 21st century.
Author(s): Dr. Kofi Lomotey
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 1152
Cover......Page 1
Editorial Board......Page 3
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Entries......Page 8
Reader’s Guide......Page 12
About the Editor......Page 18
Contributors......Page 19
Introduction......Page 24
Academic Achievement......Page 28
Academic Freedom......Page 34
“Acting White”......Page 35
Adams v. Richardson......Page 37
Adult Education......Page 39
Advanced Placement......Page 41
Affirmative Action......Page 43
African American Children’s Books......Page 47
African American Studies......Page 50
African-Centered Education......Page 56
African Free School......Page 58
African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church......Page 60
Agricultural Education......Page 63
Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education......Page 65
Alston v. School Board of City of Norfolk......Page 67
American Baptist Home Mission Society......Page 70
American Missionary Association......Page 72
American Negro Academy......Page 74
Anna T. Jeanes Foundation......Page 75
Arthur v. Nyquist......Page 77
Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)......Page 82
Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools for Negroes......Page 86
Ayers v. Fordice......Page 88
Bennett College for Women......Page 92
Berea College v. Commonwealth of Kentucky......Page 95
Bethune, Mary McLeod (1875–1955)......Page 98
Black Codes......Page 101
Black College Rebellions of the 1920s......Page 103
Black Collegian, The......Page 105
Black Females in College......Page 107
Black Female Teachers......Page 112
Black–Jewish Relations......Page 119
Black Male Academies......Page 121
Black Male Teachers......Page 123
Black Oral History Collection......Page 126
Black Panther Party Liberation Schools......Page 128
Black Theological Education......Page 129
Black Women Oral History Project (Radcliffe College)......Page 131
Board of Missions for the Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America......Page 132
Body Image......Page 134
Bolling v. Sharpe......Page 136
Boys & Girls Clubs of America......Page 138
Briggs v. Elliott......Page 140
Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas (and Brown II)......Page 143
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands......Page 147
Busing......Page 149
Calhoun v. Latimer......Page 152
Career and Technical Education......Page 156
Catholic Church......Page 160
Charter Schools......Page 163
Children’s Defense Fund......Page 166
Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) Church......Page 170
Citizenship Schools......Page 173
Civil Rights Act of 1964......Page 174
Clara Muhammad Schools......Page 176
Clark, Kenneth B. (1914–2005)......Page 178
Clarke, John Henrik (1915–1998)......Page 182
Cole, Johnnett (1936– )......Page 186
Coleman Report......Page 189
College Athletics......Page 193
Collins, Marva (1936– )......Page 196
Columbus Board of Education v. Penick......Page 197
Comer, James (1934– )......Page 200
Comer Process......Page 202
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Brown......Page 204
Community Control of Schools......Page 207
Compensatory Education......Page 209
Cooper, Anna Julia Haywood (1860–1964)......Page 211
Cooperative Economics Education......Page 213
Cooper v. Aaron......Page 215
Council of Independent Black Institutions......Page 220
Crisis, The......Page 221
Cultural Deprivation......Page 223
Culturally Appropriate Curriculum/Education......Page 225
Culture-Based Education......Page 226
Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education......Page 228
Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County......Page 230
Dayton Board of Education v. Brinkman, I and II......Page 235
Dental Education......Page 239
Desegregation......Page 243
Developmental Education......Page 248
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education......Page 250
Drake, St. Clair (1911–1990)......Page 251
Dropouts......Page 254
Du Bois, W. E. B. (1868–1963)......Page 256
Dunbar High School (Washington, D.C.)......Page 262
Ebonics......Page 266
Economics of Education......Page 268
Effective Schools......Page 272
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965......Page 274
Epps, Edgar (1929− )......Page 278
Ethnicity......Page 279
First-Generation College Students......Page 282
Fisk University......Page 284
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU)......Page 287
Franklin, John Hope (1915–2009)......Page 289
Frasier v. Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina......Page 293
Freedom Schools......Page 296
Freeman v. Pitt......Page 298
Geier v. Sundquist......Page 302
Gender......Page 304
Gender and Health Education......Page 306
Gender in Precollegiate Education......Page 307
General Education Board......Page 311
Gifted and Talented Education......Page 312
Gong Lum v. Rice......Page 316
Gordon, Edmund W. (1921– )......Page 318
Goss v. Board of Education of Knoxville, Tennessee......Page 320
Graduate Education......Page 323
Greek Letter Organizations......Page 327
Grutter v. Bollinger......Page 331
Head Start......Page 334
Higher Education Act of 1965......Page 338
Highlander Folk School......Page 342
High School Athletics......Page 344
Hilliard, Asa (1933–2007)......Page 348
Hip Hop Studies......Page 351
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)......Page 353
Homeschooling......Page 366
Howard University......Page 368
Hyperactivity......Page 371
Identity Development......Page 378
Industrial Education......Page 380
Industrial Versus Liberal Arts Education......Page 381
INROADS......Page 383
Institute of the Black World......Page 385
Interdenominational Theological Center......Page 386
International Students of African Descent......Page 388
Jim Crow......Page 392
Journal of Black Studies......Page 394
Journal of Negro Education......Page 395
Journal of Negro History......Page 397
Kelley v. Nashville Board of Education......Page 400
Killings on HBCU Campuses......Page 402
Land Grant Colleges and Universities......Page 406
Law Schools......Page 409
Learning Disabilities......Page 411
Lee v. Macon County Board of Education......Page 412
Liddell v. Missouri......Page 416
Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)......Page 419
Literacy......Page 422
Little Rock Nine......Page 424
Lucy v. Adams, Dean of Admissions, University of Alabama......Page 428
Mainstreaming......Page 434
Malcolm X Academy (Detroit, Michigan)......Page 436
Marshall, Thurgood (1908–1993)......Page 438
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School Children v. Ann Arbor School District......Page 441
Mathematics Education......Page 444
Mays, Benjamin E. (1894–1984)......Page 445
McDaniel v. Barresi......Page 447
McKissick, Floyd (1922–1991)......Page 449
McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education......Page 451
Media Literacy......Page 453
Medical Education......Page 456
Meharry Medical College......Page 460
Mendez v. Westminster School District of Orange County......Page 463
Mentoring Programs......Page 465
Meredith v. Fair......Page 470
Milliken v. Bradley......Page 472
Mills v. Board of Education of Anne Arundel County......Page 474
Miss ouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada......Page 479
Morehouse College......Page 482
Morgan v. O’Bryant......Page 486
Multicultural Education......Page 491
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund......Page 496
National Alliance of Black School Educators......Page 498
National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education......Page 499
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)......Page 501
National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools......Page 503
National Black Child Development Institute......Page 505
National Council for Black Studies......Page 507
National Council on Educating Black Children......Page 509
National Pan-Hellenic Council......Page 511
National Urban League......Page 512
Nation of Islam......Page 516
Negro Digest......Page 517
Negro History Bulletin......Page 519
New Deal......Page 520
No Child Left Behind......Page 522
Open Admissions......Page 526
Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1......Page 528
Pasadena City Board of Education v. Spangler......Page 530
Phelps Stokes Fund......Page 533
Philander Smith College......Page 535
Plessy v. Ferguson......Page 539
Poverty and Education......Page 543
Predominantly Black Colleges and Universities......Page 547
Predominantly White Institutions......Page 550
Private and Public Funding......Page 553
Racism Inside the Race: Light Skin Versus Dark Skin......Page 556
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke......Page 558
Religious-Based Education......Page 565
Reparations......Page 567
Resegregation......Page 568
Riddick v. School Board of the City of Norfolk......Page 570
Rites of Passage Programs......Page 573
Roberts v. City of Boston......Page 575
Rosenwald Fund......Page 577
Rural Education......Page 579
Sabbath Schools......Page 584
Sankofa Shule (Lansing, Michigan)......Page 585
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture......Page 587
School Choice......Page 589
Schott Foundation Black Boys Initiative......Page 593
Science Education......Page 595
Self-Esteem......Page 597
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy......Page 599
Serrano v. Priest......Page 603
Singleton v. Jackson Municipal Separate School District......Page 605
Slater Fund......Page 609
Slave Narratives......Page 610
Socioeconomic Status (SES)......Page 612
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools......Page 617
Southern University......Page 619
Special Education......Page 621
Spelman College......Page 625
Standardized Testing......Page 628
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)......Page 631
Substance Abuse......Page 635
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education......Page 636
Talented Tenth......Page 640
Tape v. Hurley......Page 644
Tenure and African American Faculty......Page 646
Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund......Page 648
TRIO Programs......Page 650
Tureaud v. Board of Supervisors......Page 654
Tuskegee University......Page 657
Unitary Status......Page 662
United Negro College Fund (UNCF)......Page 664
United States v. Jefferson County Board of Education......Page 667
United States v. Montgomery County Board of Education......Page 670
United States v. Wallace......Page 674
University of Maryland v. Murray......Page 675
Urban Education......Page 677
Voting Rights Act of 1965......Page 682
Voucher......Page 685
Ward v. Flood......Page 688
Washington, Booker T. (1856–1915)......Page 689
W. Deen Mohammed High School (Atlanta, Georgia)......Page 692
White Flight......Page 694
Women’s Studies......Page 696
Woodson, Carter G. (1875–1950)......Page 699
Wygant v. Jackson Board of Education......Page 703
Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA)......Page 706
Appendix - The Complete Bibliography of The Journal of Negro Education, 1932–2008......Page 710
APPENDIX CONTENTS......Page 712
INTRODUCTION......Page 714
Editor’s Comments......Page 718
The Journal of Negro Education Tables of Contents, Volumes 1–77......Page 730
Journal of Negro Education Articles on Segregation, Desegregation, and Equality in Education......Page 950
Index......Page 1096
