To Advance the Race: Black Women's Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s

by Linda Perkins

From the United States' earliest days, African Americans considered education essential for their freedom and progress. Linda M. Perkins's study ranges across educational and geographical settings to tell the stories of Black women and girls as students, professors, and administrators. Beginning with early efforts and the establishment of abolitionist colleges, Perkins follows the history of Black women's post-Civil War experiences at elite white...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252045734
• ISBN13: 9780252045738
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"