Improvements to Secondary Education
Changed to research based education and new colleges for law, medicine, and business.
African Americans and High Education
Few A.A. attended school and A.A. mainly went to private s
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Improvements to Secondary Education
Changed to research based education and new colleges for law, medicine, and business.
African Americans and High Education
Few A.A. attended school and A.A. mainly went to private schools
Booker T. Washington believed ......
Work then seek change
W.E.B. Dubois believed......
Seek education first
Poll tax, Literacy test, and the grandfather clause
What laws limit voting rights
The Jim Crow laws
Laws that made segregation legal and affected all parts of African American life
Plessy vs. Fergusson
Supreme court case that made Jim Crow laws legal, and established separate but equal laws
Informal rules of a segregated society
1. Customs belittled and humiliated A.A., those who refused could face violent punishments lynching (hanging from a tree), Some A.A. moved North but would also face discrimination.
Discrimination in the West
Asians, Mexicans, Debt. Peonage, band them to the land as slaves and have to pay off debt
Why did education become more important during the industrial age?
The economy demanded advanced technical and managerial skills.
Why were immigrants encouraged to go to school?
So they could be Americanized
How did High Schools Change during the late 1800's and early 1900's
because enrollment greatly grew and the curriculum became expanded
How did College Curricula Change during the turn of the century?
Offered courses in modern languages, the physical sciences, and the new disciplines of psychology and sociology.
How did African Americans pursue a higher education despite their exclusion from white institutions
African Americans pursue higher education with the help of Freedmen's Bureau and
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