TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baumgartner,Kabria
TI  - In pursuit of knowledge: black women and educational activism in antebellum America 
T2  - Early American Places Ser.
SN  - 9781479871377
AV  - LC2741 .I578 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - African American women educators
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - African American women political activists
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Education
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1 and index; Prayer and protest at the Canterbury Female Seminary --; Race and reform at the Young Ladies' Domestic Seminary --; Women teachers in New York City --; Race, gender, and the American high school in Massachusetts --; Black girlhood and equal rights in Boston --; Character education and the antebellum classroom --; Conclusion. Going forward; 2; b
N2  - Uncovers the hidden role of girls and women in the desegregation of American education The story of school desegregation in the United States often begins in the mid-twentieth-century South. Drawing on archival sources and genealogical records, Kabria Baumgartner uncovers the story's origins in the nineteenth-century Northeast and identifies a previously overlooked group of activists: African American girls and women. In their quest for education, African American girls and women faced numerous obstacles--from threats and harassment to violence. For them, education was a daring undertaking that put them in harm's way. Yet bold and brave young women such as Sarah Harris, Sarah Parker Remond, Rosetta Morrison, Susan Paul, and Sarah Mapps Douglass persisted. In Pursuit of Knowledge argues that African American girls and women strategized, organized, wrote, and protested for equal school rights--not just for themselves, but for all. Their activism gave rise to a new vision of womanhood: the purposeful woman, who was learned, active, resilient, and forward-thinking. Moreover, these young women set in motion equal-school-rights victories at the local and state level, and laid the groundwork for further action to democratize schools in twentieth-century America. In this thought-provoking book, Baumgartner demonstrates that the confluence of race and gender has shaped the long history of school desegregation in the United States right up to the present
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