Introduction: New Perspectives on African American Educational History

• Published in: The Journal of African American history Vol. 87; no. 4; pp. 369 - 371
• Main Author: Perkins, Linda M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Silver Spring Association for the Study of African American Life and History 22-09-2002; University of Chicago Press
• Subjects: African American women; African Americans; Black literature; Black studies; Education; Essays; History; Influence; United States
• ISSN: 1548-1867; 2153-5086
• DOI: 10.1086/JAAHv87n4p369

Perkins explores the contributions of black women educational leaders Fanny Jackson Coppin and Lucy Laney, northern philanthropy and African American professional and non-professional education, and the role of black social, political, and cultural institutions in sponsoring formal and informal educational programs and activities in their communities. Several essays, which offer new sources and interpretations of topics and open up new areas for scholarly examination, including "Clothing Themselves in Intelligence': The Freedpeople, Schooling, and Northern Teachers, 1861-1871," "Womanhood Glorified': Nannie Helen Burroughs and the National Training School for Women and Girls, Inc., 1909-1961," and "Hidden in Plain View: African Women, Radical Feminism, and the Origins of Women's Studies Programs, 1967-1974," are also offered.