Using past as prologue : contemporary perspectives on African American educational history / edited by Dionne Danns, Indiana University ; Michelle A. Purdy, Washington University in St. Louis ; Christopher M. Span, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Introduction : Towards a New History of African American Education / Dionne Danns, Michelle A. Purdy, and Christopher M. Span -- Why the Nineteenth Century Still Matters / Christopher M. Span -- A Class All Their Own : Economic and Educational Independence of Free People of Color in Antebellum Louisiana / Alisha D. Johnson -- Forgotten or Simply Ignored : A Historiography of African Americans and Catholic Education / Katrina M. Sanders -- New Perspectives on Progressive Education : HBCU Lab High Schools during Jim Crow / Sharon G. Pierson -- Graduate Study and Jim Crow : The Circular Migration of Southern Black Educators, 1945-1970 / Donna Jordan-Taylor -- Words of Action : The Speeches of President Alfonso Elder and the North Carolina Student Movement / Eddie Rice Cole -- "We Declare Independence from the Unjust Laws of Mississippi" : The Freedom Schools, Head Start and the Reconstruction of Education during the Civil Rights Movement / Jon N. Hale -- The Rise and Fall of a Black Private School : Holy Name of Mary and the Golden Age of Black Private Education in Chicago, 1940-1990 / Worth Kamili Hayes -- "Why Are You Going All the Way Up There to That White School?" : Oral History, Desegregation, and Chicago Experiences / Dionne Danns -- Control and Independence : Black Alternatives for Urban Education / Elizabeth S. Todd-Breland -- African American Education in the Age of Accountability, 1975-2005 / R. Scott Baker -- Reassessing the Achievement Gap : An Intergenerational Comparison of African American Student Achievement before and after Compensatory Education and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) / Christopher M. Span and Ishwanzya D. Rivers -- Future Directions of Historically Black Colleges and Universities / Marybeth Gasman and Felecia Commodore -- Connecting the Dots : Reflecting on Pedagogy and African American Educational History / Michelle A. Purdy -- Epilogue : From Freedom Schools to Freedom Schooling? / V.P. Franklin.
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