Essay Question: Please respond to the following prompt in a 3-5 page, double spaced essay. Please make sure that you acknowledge all outside sources that you utilize – there is no need to formally cite (MLA, APA etc.), author name and journal
ook title will suffice.
[To cite lectures you can use (Goodridge, lecture 4A)]
1.Critically discuss Catherine Beecher and her role in the rise of American public education: what made her notable?
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From Reconstruction into the
20th Century
Last Class
▪ 3 eras of Reconstruction
▪ Plessy V. Ferguson
▪ Civil War Amendments (13,14,15)
▪ Wa
en Article & the 1867, Board of Education
▪ Red Summer of 1919
▪ De Jure v De Facto Segregation
Susan B Anthony
& Elizabeth Cady
Stanton: A New
Type
▪ Beginnings of the women’s rights movement
▪ 1848 Seneca Falls Convention
▪ Declaration of Sentiments
▪ A departure from Catherine Beecher – never sought
equal footing with men.
▪ Beecher judged antiquated/foolish by Stanton
▪ “we hold these truths to be self-evident…”
▪ Equal pay
▪ Access to marital property
▪ Child custody
The Historical
White Male
Problem
▪ Throughout the history of advancement white men have
worked to undercut women and minorities
▪ Stanton’s battle with male officials regarding
advancement
▪ Anna Cooper’s battle with White males in Washington DC
alarmed over a rising black intellectual generation at the
M School in 1901
▪ Booker T Washington having to hide young women
learning classics & alge
a from white donors wanting
them to learn nothing but domestic skills/field labo
A Manufactured
Divide
▪ The 14th Amendment and voting rights
▪ Fracture point between Women’s Rights and
abolitionists
▪ Former allies
▪ Anthony and Stanton make common cause with racists
▪ These men prefer to see women suffrage as opposed to
lack males
Port Royal
Experiment
▪ Sea Islands – off Coast of South Carolina
▪ Former Slaves given autonomy over former slave lands
▪ Teachers come to promote desire for literacy
▪ We meet Charlotte Forten
▪ African American Teache
▪ Unlike white protestant teachers- moved by alternative to
ma
iage
▪ Forten & other black educators had a more nuanced
mandate:
▪ Knowledge
▪ Self Esteem
▪ Racial Pride
Split in Black
Education
Philosophy
▪ Booker T Washington V. W.E. B Du Bois
▪ The Soul of Black Folk
▪ Black Reconstruction
▪ The Tuskegee Model V. “the Talented tenth”
▪ Up From Slavery
**best work describing this split:
James D. Anderson. The Education of Blacks in the South,
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The nature of
Education
▪ Port Royal Experiment terminated, 1866. President
Johnson returns lands to slave owners
▪ Men and women there become sharecroppers –
trapped by need
▪ Henry Villard (Railway magnet) upon receiving a letter
from a former student at Tuskegee
▪ Furious at the description of classics, alge
a and
government being taught to freedmen
▪ Should be exclusively domestic/field skills
▪ The need to create permeant underclass to serve
Capitalist ends
***Bowles & Gintis. Schooling in Capitalist America
Washington and
Du Bois
▪ Explored issues resonate today in charter schools:
▪ Bringing the community in the school
▪ Length of school day/yea
▪ “wraparound “ Services (Harlem Success Zone)
▪ Militaristic discipline (KIPP schools)
North Carolina
▪ Anna Cooper – classic education in Raleigh NC
▪ Only state with roughly equal pupil funding
▪ Teachers paid roughly the same
▪ Sustaining this depended on the will of black voters
▪ 1900 fell victim to:
▪ Poll taxes
▪ Literary tests
▪ Grandfather clause
▪ Schools tax formula amended to cripple black schools
▪ Cooper leaves NC for the prestigious M Street School
▪ After much success she would be ambushed by alarmed
Whites
▪ Attempt to force a more vocational track
▪ Finally succumbed to manufactured story regarding her
stepson
Outside forces
impacting
Education
The Neighborhoods We Will Not Share
Persistent housing segregation lies at the root of many of our society’s problems. Trump wants to make it worse.
By Richard Rothstein
Mr. Rothstein is the author of “The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government
Segregated America.”
•Jan. 20, 2020
•Mid 20th C. explicit racial policies to sustain segregation
•Entrenched contemporary segregation
•New York Homes for returning war veterans ba
ed African Americans
•Mob violence drove black families out of housing desired by whites
•These patterns have proved resilient to being reversed as the wealth gap
generated by home appreciation continues to grow
* All of these transgressions are Unconstitutional – Du Jure V. De Facto
When Fissures
appea
▪ Equity minded individuals are often turned against
each other.
▪ Educational activists and the NAACP (School Choice)
▪ Historically: abolitionists & Women’s rights advocates
▪ Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois
▪ Women’s March participants
▪ Post Structuralist – Post Modernist divided
Possible papers
to be teased out
of this era
▪ What is the legacy of Radical Reconstruction to Education
policy?
▪ Regarding education, how has the south been, defined/impacted
y its past?
▪ How did Charles Sumner impact the development of universal
education?
▪ How did African American thinkers such as Du Bois assess the
impact of Reconstruction on education?
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