Composition: History & Theory: 1900 - 1919
The NAACP
Description
In The American School From the Puritans to No Child Left Behind (2008), Joel Spring highlights the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909. The organization’s major goal was to end school segregation. W.E.B. DuBois supported education for blacks to “protect social and political rights” within the black community and to develop an Afro-American culture aware of its own unhappy position (235). From 1910-1930 black communities (while still paying taxes to support white schools) built 4,977 rural black schools (236). Despite a lack of support, they had excellent education, caring teachers, and involved parents: with thoughts of integration came the fear of racist teachers (237).
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3/19/09