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.
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