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By Antonio F. Holland

ISBN-10: 082621679X

ISBN-13: 9780826216793

ISBN-10: 0826265502

ISBN-13: 9780826265500

At the flip of the 20 th century, African americans wanting to increase their lives via greater schooling have been faced with the divergent issues of view of 2 nice leaders: Booker T. Washington recommended vocational education, whereas W. E. B. Du Bois under pressure the significance of the liberal arts. Into the fray stepped Nathan B. younger, who, as Antonio Holland now tells, left an enduring mark on that debate.
Born in slavery in Alabama, younger a love of studying to levels from Talladega and Oberlin faculties and a occupation in greater schooling. hired by means of Booker T. Washington in 1892, he served at Tuskegee Institute till clash with Washington’s vocational orientation led him to maneuver on. in the course of a short tenure at Georgia kingdom business university less than Richard R. Wright, Sr., he turned dissatisfied through efforts of whites to restrict black schooling to agriculture and the trades. employed as president of Florida A&M in 1901, he fought for two decades to stability agricultural/vocational schooling with the liberal arts, purely to satisfy with competition from country officers that ended in his ouster.
This principled educator eventually discovered his position as president of Lincoln collage in Missouri in 1923. right here younger made a decided attempt to set up the varsity as a typical establishment of upper studying. Holland describes how he campaigned effectively to elevate educational criteria and achieve accreditation for Lincoln’s programs—successes made attainable by means of the political and financial help of farsighted participants of Missouri’s black community.
Holland indicates that the good debate over black better schooling was once carried on not just within the rhetoric of Washington and Du Bois but in addition at the campuses, as younger and others sought to arrange African American scholars to develop into thinkers and creators. In tracing Young’s occupation, Holland offers a wealth of knowledge at the nature of the schooling supplied for former slaves and their descendents in 4 states—shedding new mild at the academic setting at Oberlin and Tuskegee—and at the activities of racist white executive officers to restrict the curriculum of public schooling for blacks.
even though Young’s efforts to enhance the universities he served have been frequently thwarted, Holland exhibits that he stored his imaginative and prescient alive within the black neighborhood. Holland’s meticulous reconstruction of an eventful profession offers a tremendous examine the forces that formed and confounded the improvement of black larger schooling in the course of annoying times.

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Young, “The Quest,” 28–29. 47. Barnard, From Evangelicalism to Progressivism, 14; Young, “The Quest,” 29. Young believed that Elisha Gray came up with his version of the telephone in Churchill’s laboratory. 48. Young, “The Quest,” 29. 22 Nathan B. Young and the Struggle over Black Higher Education the “elder statesmen” like Fairchild, Churchill, and Shurtleff. ” There was William G. Frost in Greek, Lyman B. Hall in Latin, and Henry C. King in mathematics, all of whom were Oberlin graduates. Until the turn of the century, in fact, Oberlin often hired its former students as faculty after advanced training elsewhere, a practice that was aimed at preserving the evangelistic spirit of the old Oberlin.

Barnard, From Evangelicalism to Progressivism, 32, 33; Young, “The Quest,” 30. Early Life and Education 23 and moral philosophy. Ellis was also a leader in temperance movements. He was a dynamic speaker and champion of the old Oberlin values. Alongside the men of Oberlin stood a woman in shaping character and teaching culture, Mrs. Adelia A. F. ” She was Oberlin’s first woman professor and dean of women. 51 There were other makers of character besides the faculty. There were young tutors about to become teachers like Charles B.

15 Almost immediately Washington gave Young the responsibilities of head teacher of the academic area. On its most basic, dayto-day level, Young’s work as head teacher was mostly concerned with the mundane, routine concerns of a small school. To begin with, Young was still primarily a teacher, one with a full teaching load. In the fall of 1893, for example, he was teaching five regular classes, one speech class, and one study period. It was in addition to all this that he pursued his administrative work.

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