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In pursuit of knowledge : black women and educational activism in antebellum America / Kabria Baumgartner

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Baumgartner, Kabria, 1982-
Published
New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Copyright Date
©2019
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 286 pages) : illustrations
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Contents
Prayer and protest at the Canterbury Female Seminary -- Race and reform at the Young Ladies' Domestic Seminary -- Women teachers in New York City -- Race, gender, and the American high school -- Black girlhood and equal school rights -- Character education and the antebellum classroom -- Conclusion. Going forward.
Summary
Uncovers the hidden role of girls and women in the desegregation of American education The story of school desegregation in the United States often begins in the mid-twentieth-century South. Drawing on archival sources and genealogical records, Kabria Baumgartner uncovers the story's origins in the nineteenth-century Northeast and identifies a previously overlooked group of activists: African American girls and women. In their quest for education, African American girls and women faced numerous obstacles--from threats and harassment to violence. For them, education was a daring undertaking that put them in harm's way. Yet bold and brave young women such as Sarah Harris, Sarah Parker Remond, Rosetta Morrison, Susan Paul, and Sarah Mapps Douglass persisted. In Pursuit of Knowledge argues that African American girls and women strategized, organized, wrote, and protested for equal school rights--not just for themselves, but for all. Their activism gave rise to a new vision of womanhood: the purposeful woman, who was learned, active, resilient, and forward-thinking. Moreover, these young women set in motion equal-school-rights victories at the local and state level, and laid the groundwork for further action to democratize schools in twentieth-century America. In this thought-provoking book, Baumgartner demonstrates that the confluence of race and gender has shaped the long history of school desegregation in the United States right up to the present.
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9781479871377 (electronic bk.)
1479871370 (electronic bk.)
9781479823116 (print)
1479823112 (print)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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