Description
Book SynopsisRecounts how a diverse contingent of educators, nuns, and political activists embraced institution building as the most effective means to attain quality education. This book makes a fascinating addition to scholarly debates about education, segregation, African American history, and Chicago.
Trade ReviewSchools of Our Own is an important contribution that extends our understanding of the development of education in Chicago and the agency and self-determination of black Chicagoans. It reinforces our understanding of the longstanding efforts of African Americans to use schools for social mobility and personal advancement, and how this cultural value and expectation was transplanted from the American South to urban centers like Chicago when southern blacks migrated north." —Christopher Span, author of
From Cotton Field to SchoolhouseTable of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- "What He Needs is Education": Black Education in Chicago to 1940
- "For the Very Meaning of Our Lives": Howalton Day School: 1946-1986
- "Something Far More Ennobling": Holy Name of Mary, 1940-2002
- "We Have Done Black Things Today and We're Going to Do Black Things Again Tomorrow": New Concept Development Center, 1972-1998
- Epilogue: "We Have to Invest in Our Own Power"
- Notes
- Bibliography
