Catalogue of Oberlin College for the Year ...
Author : Oberlin College
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Page : 874 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Oberlin College
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Page : 874 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 1868
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Author : Oberlin College
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Page : 782 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 1846
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Author : Oberlin College
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Page : 1374 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Universities and colleges
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Page : 734 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 1900
Category : New England
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Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
Author : Gary Kornblith
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 32,90 MB
Release : 2018-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807170151
Before the Civil War, Oberlin, Ohio, stood in the vanguard of the abolition and black freedom movements. The community, including co-founded Oberlin College, strove to end slavery and establish full equality for all. Yet, in the half-century after the Union victory, Oberlin’s resolute stand for racial justice eroded as race-based discrimination pressed down on its African American citizens. In Elusive Utopia, noted historians Gary J. Kornblith and Carol Lasser tell the story of how, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Oberlin residents, black and white, understood and acted upon their changing perceptions of race, ultimately resulting in the imposition of a color line. Founded as a utopian experiment in 1833, Oberlin embraced radical racial egalitarianism in its formative years. By the eve of the Civil War, when 20 percent of its local population was black, the community modeled progressive racial relations that, while imperfect, shone as strikingly more advanced than in either the American South or North. Emancipation and the passage of the Civil War amendments seemed to confirm Oberlin's egalitarian values. Yet, contrary to the expectations of its idealistic founders, Oberlin’s residents of color fell increasingly behind their white peers economically in the years after the war. Moreover, leaders of the white-dominated temperance movement conflated class, color, and respectability, resulting in stigmatization of black residents. Over time, many white Oberlinians came to view black poverty as the result of personal failings, practiced residential segregation, endorsed racially differentiated education in public schools, and excluded people of color from local government. By 1920, Oberlin’s racial utopian vision had dissipated, leaving the community to join the racist mainstream of American society. Drawing from newspapers, pamphlets, organizational records, memoirs, census materials and tax lists, Elusive Utopia traces the rise and fall of Oberlin's idealistic vision and commitment to racial equality in a pivotal era in American history.
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Page : 1006 pages
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Release : 1913
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Author : John Frederick Bell
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 29,83 MB
Release : 2022-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807177849
Winner of the New Scholar’s Book Award from the American Educational Research Association The abolitionist movement not only helped bring an end to slavery in the United States but also inspired the large-scale admission of African Americans to the country’s colleges and universities. Oberlin College changed the face of American higher education in 1835 when it began enrolling students irrespective of race and sex. Camaraderie among races flourished at the Ohio institution and at two other leading abolitionist colleges, Berea in Kentucky and New York Central, where Black and white students allied in the fight for emancipation and civil rights. After Reconstruction, however, color lines emerged on even the most progressive campuses. For new generations of white students and faculty, ideas of fairness toward African Americans rarely extended beyond tolerating their presence in the classroom, and overt acts of racial discrimination grew increasingly common by the 1880s. John Frederick Bell’s Degrees of Equality analyzes the trajectory of interracial reform at Oberlin, New York Central, and Berea, noting its implications for the progress of racial justice in both the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. Drawing on student and alumni writings, institutional records, and promotional materials, Bell interrogates how abolitionists and their successors put their principles into practice. The ultimate failure of these social experiments illustrates a tragic irony of abolitionism, as the achievement of African American freedom and citizenship led whites to divest from the project of racial pluralism.
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Page : 264 pages
File Size : 38,21 MB
Release : 1904
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Author : Eva Hesse
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Page : 198 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 1994
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Author : Ronald E. Butchart
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 38,92 MB
Release : 2010-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807899348
Conventional wisdom holds that freedmen's education was largely the work of privileged, single white northern women motivated by evangelical beliefs and abolitionism. Backed by pathbreaking research, Ronald E. Butchart's Schooling the Freed People shatters this notion. The most comprehensive quantitative study of the origins of black education in freedom ever undertaken, this definitive book on freedmen's teachers in the South is an outstanding contribution to social history and our understanding of African American education.