Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture

Revised by Jenny Kaemmerlen, intern, October, 2005

Education in the South

Books

Adams, Frank. Unearthing Seeds of Fire: The Idea of Highlander. Winston-Salem: J. F. Blair, 1975.

(LD7501M82A83)

Anderson, James D. The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. Chapel Hill: University of

North Carolina Press, 1988. (LC2802S9S531988)

 
Albanese, Anthony Gerald. The Plantation School. New York: Vantage Press, 1976.
 (E445.S7 A43 1976)

Ashmore, Harry S. The Negro and the Schools. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1954.

(LC2801A871954)

Baker, Houston A. Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

 (E184.7B31993)
 
Banks, James A. Black Self-Concept: Implications for Education and Social Science. New York: 
 McGraw-Hill, 1972. (E185.625B35)
 
Brown, Thomas J. Lessons Learned from the Gullah Experience: Powerful Forces in Educating 
African-American Youth. St. Helena Island, SC: KK & G Enterprises, 1998. (LC2717 .B66 1998)
 
Brownlee, Frederick Leslie. New Day Ascending. Boston: The Pilgrim Press, 1946. (BV2360.A8 B7)
 
Butchart, Ronald E. Northern Schools, Southern Blacks, and Reconstruction: Freedmen's Education, 
 1862-1875. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980. (LC2802S9B87)

Clark, Septima Poinsette. Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement.

Navarro: Wild Tree Press, 1986. (E185.615S5971986)

Cooley, Rossa B. School Acres: An Adventure in Rural Education. New Haven: Yale University

Press, 1930. (LC2852.S32 C6)

Cooper, Arnold. Between Struggle and Hope: Four Black Educators in the South, 1894-1915.

Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1989. (LA2315586C661989)

 
Cornelius, Janet Duitsman. "When I Can Read My Title Clear": Literacy, Slavery, and Religion in the 
 Antebellum South. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1991. (E443C71991)

Dabbs, Edith M. Sea Island Diary: A History of St. Helena Island. Spartanburg: Reprint Co., 1993.

(F277B3D31983)

 
Doherty, James L. Race and Education in Richmond. [Richmond? : s.n.], 1972. (LA381R5D631972)

Drago, Edmund. A History of Avery Normal Institute from 1865-1954, Revised and Enlarged.

Charleston: Avery Research Center, 1991. (LC2852C443D731990)

 
Dreyfuss, Joel. The Bakke case: the Politics of Inequality. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 
 1979. (KF228.B34 D741979)
 
DuBose, Sonny. The Road to Brown: the Leadership of a Soldier of the Cross, Rev. J.A. DeLaine: 
 Recollections of Courage.  Orangeburg, SC: Williams Pub., 2002. (F277.C7 D83 2002)
 
Dyson, Walter. Howard University, the Capstone of Negro Education a History, 1867-1940. 
 Washington, D.C.:  The Graduate School, Howard University, 1941. (LC2851H825D92)
 
Fleming, John, Gerald R. Gill, and David H. Swinton. The Case for Affirmative Action for Blacks in 
 Higher Education. Washington, D.C.: Institute for the Study of Educational Policy,
 Howard University: published for ISEP by Howard University Press, 1978.
 (LC2781F561978)
 
Fleming, John. The Lengthening Shadow of Slavery: a Historical Justification for Affirmative Action 
 for Blacks in Higher Education. Washington, D.C.: Published for ISEP by Howard University 
 Press, 1976. (LC2781F571976)

Forten, Charlotte L. The Journal of Charlotte Forten: A Free Negro in the Slave Era. New York:

Collier Books, 1961. (LA2317F67A331961)

Foster, Sarah Jane. Sarah Jane Foster, Teacher of the Freedmen: A Diary and Letters.

Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990. (LA2317F68A31990)

 
Fraser, Jr., Walter J., R. Frank Saunders, Jr., and Jon L. Wakelyn, eds.  The Web of Southern Social 
Relations: Women, Family, & Education. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985. (HN79A13W431985)
 
Freyer, Tony Allan. The Little Rock Crisis: a Constitutional Interpretation. Westport, CT: Greenwood 
 Press, 1984. (KFA3992.2F731984)

Gall-Clayton, Nancy. Strange People with Books: a Twenty-Year Followup of Students from a 
 Summer Enrichment Program for Low-Income Rural Black Youth from South Carolina.  
 Louisville, KY: Advocado Press, 1990. (LC2802S6G351990)
 
Garner, Nathan C., and Colin M. Turnbull, eds. Anthropology, Drama and the Human Experience: an 
 Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Social Values: Essays and Exercises by 
 Participants in a Humanities Institute Held at George Washington University with the 
 Support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, June 4 to July 27, 1979. 
 Washington: Division of Experimental Programs, George Washington University, 1979. 
 (PN1701A571979)
 
Gill, Gerald R. Meanness Mania: the Changed Mood. Washington, D.C.: Published for ISEP by 
 Howard University Press,1980. (LC2717G541980)
 
Ginzberg, Eli. The Middle-Class Negro in the White Man's World.  New York, Columbia University 
 Press, 1967. (E185.82G5)
 
Glasser, William. Schools Without Failure. New York: Harper & Row, 1969. (LB885G551975) 

Glen, John M. Highlander, No Ordinary School, 1932-1962. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky,

1988. (LC5301M65G551988)

Gore, Blinzy L. On a Hilltop High: The Origin and History of Claflin College to 1984. Spartanburg:

The Reprint Company Publishers, 1994. (LD995G71994)

 
Green, Madeleine F., ed. Minorities on Campus: a Handbook for Enhancing Diversity. Washington, 
 D.C.: American Council on Education, 1989. (LC3731M581989)
 
Greenough, Richard. Africa Calls ... Development of Education, the Needs and Problems.  Paris: 
 Unesco, 1961. (LA1501G71961)
 
Hale, Janice E. Black Children: Their Roots, Culture, and Learning Styles.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins 
 University Press, 1986. (LC2771H341986) 

Harlan, Louis R. Separate and Unequal: Public School Campaigns and Racism in the Southern

Seaboard States, 1901-1915. New York: Atheneum, 1968.

(LC2802S9H371968)

 
Heritage Education. Columbia, SC: Public Programs Division, South Carolina Dept. of Archives and 
 History, 1990. (F268.5H471990)
 
Holley, Joseph W. You Can't Build a Chimney from the Top. Lanham, MD: University Press of 
 America, 1948. (E185.97.H7 A3 1992)

Hornsby, Benjamin F. Stepping Stone to the Supreme Court: Clarendon County. Topics in African

American History. Columbia: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1992.

(LC2802S6H671992)

Horton, Aimee Isgrig. The Highlander Folk School: A History of its Major Programs, 1932-1961.

Brooklyn: Carlson Pub., 1989. (LC5301M65H671989)

 
Imbakom Kalewold. Traditional Ethiopian Church Education. Translated by Menghestu Lemma. New 
 York: Teachers College press, 1970. (BV1470E8I4131970)

Jacoway, Elizabeth. Yankee Missionaries in the South: The Penn School Experiment. Baton Rouge:

Louisiana State University Press, 1980. (T171P45J32)

 
Johnson, Kerry A., and Lin J. Foa, eds. Instructional Design: New Alternatives for Effective Education 
and Training. New York: National University Continuing Education Association, 1989. (LB1028.35I561989)
 
Jones, Jacqueline. Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865-1873.
 Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980. (F291J67)
 
Jones, Laurence Clifton. Piney Woods and Its Story. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1922. 
 (LC2852B72J61922)

Klibaner, Irwin. Conscience of a Troubled South: the Southern Conference Educational Fund, 1946-

1966. Brooklyn: Carlson Pub., 1989. (LC212.522S7K581989)

 
Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice: the History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's 
Struggle for Equality.  New York: Knopf: distributed by Random House, 1975. (KF4155K551975 V1-V2) 
 
Kozol, Jonathan. Death at an Early Age: the Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children 
 in he Boston Public Schools. New York: Bantam Books, 1968. (LC2803B7K61968)
 
Link, William A. A Hard Country and a Lonely Place: Schooling, Society, and Reform in Rural 
Virginia, 1870-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. (LB1567L561986)
 
Lyons, Charles H. To Wash an Aethiop White: British Ideas about Black African Educability, 1530-
 1960. New York: Teachers College Press, 1975. (BF432N5L93)
 
Marshner, Connaught Coyne. Blackboard Tyranny. New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1978.
 (LA217M341978) 
 
McCandless, Amy M. The Past in the Present: Women's Higher Education in the Twentieth-Century 
 American South. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999. (LC1756 .M24 1999)
 
Meriwether, Colyer. History of Higher Education in South Carolina, with a Sketch of the Free School 
 System.  Washington: Govt. Print. Off.,1889. (L111A5no.41972)
 
Middleton, John. From Child to Adult: Studies in the Anthropology of Education. Garden City, NY: 
Published for the American Museum of Natural History [by] the Natural History Press, 1970. (LB41M6471970) 

Morris, J. Kenneth. Elizabeth Evelyn Wright, 1872-1906: Founder of Voorhees College. Sewanee:

University of the South, 1983. (LC2851V8W7561983)

Morris, Robert Charles. Reading, ‘Riting, and Reconstruction: The Education of Freedmen in the

South, 1861-1870. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. (LC2801M64)

Newby, James Edward. Black Authors and Education: An Annotated Bibliography of Books.

Washington: University Press of America, 1980. (LB1025.2N481980)

Nevin, David. The Schools that Fear Built: Segregationist Academics in the South. Washington:

Acropolis Books, 1976. (LA212N481976)

Ogden, Robert Curtis, et. al. From Servitude to Service: Being the Old South Lectures on the History

and Work of Southern Institutions for the Education of the Negro. Boston: American Unitarian Assocation, 1905. (LC2741F71905)

 
O'Gorman, Ned. The Storefront: a Community of Children on 129th Street & Madison Avenue. New 
 York: Harper & Row, 1970.  (LC2803N5O551970)

Parker, Kathryn Elmes. A Teacher’s Guide to Gettin’ to Know Me: A Series of Nine, 30-minute

Television Programs on Black Folklore of the South for Intermediate Grades. Columbia,

SC: South Carolina ETV, 1979. (GR111A47P371993)

 
Patterson, James T. Brown v. Board of Education: a Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy.
 New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. (KF4155 .P38 2001)
 
Pegues, A. W. Our Baptist Ministers and Schools. Springfield, MA: Willey & Co., 1892. (BX6453 .P4 
 1892)
 
Pfeifer, Helen E. Something of a Faith: a Brief History of Mary Holmes College (90th anniversary 
Edition). West Point, MS: Mary Holmes College, Office of Development and Public Relations, 1982. (LC2851.M373 P434 1982)
 
Picott, J. Rupert. History of the Virginia Teachers Association. Washington: National Education 
 Association, 1975. (L13.V533 P52)

Picott, J. Rupert. A Quarter Century of the Black Experience in Elementary and Secondary \
Education, 1950-1975. Washington: Picott, 1976. (LC2801 .P52)
 

Potts, John F. A History of the Palmetto Education Association. Washington: National Education

Association, 1978. (LD505P67)

Potts, John F. A History of South Carolina State College, 1896-1978. Orangeburg: South Carolina

State College, 1978. (LD5015P67)

Powell, Richard. To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and

Universities. Cambridge, MA: Distributed by MIT Press, 1999. (N6538N5P681999)

Powers, Bernard. Black Charlestonians: A Social History, 1822-1885. Fayetteville: University of

Arkansas Press, 1994. (F279C49N41994)

 
Read, Margaret. Children of Their Fathers: Growing Up Among the Ngoni of Malawi. New York: 
 Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968. (GN482R41968)
 
Roucek, Joseph Slabey. The Negro Impact on Western Civilization.  New York: Philosophical Library, 
 1970. (E185R83)

Roeshsler, Lawrence. Education Debacle in Charleston County, SC, 1967-1970. Charleston, SC: J.

Lawerence Associates, 1970. (LA362C3R61970)

 
Rosenfeld, Gerry. "Shut Those Thick Lips!" A Study of Slum School Failure. New York: Holt, 
 Rinehart and Winston, 1971. (LC2801R681971)
 
 Schwartz, Marie Jenkins. Born in Bondage: Growing Up Enslaved in the Antebellum South. 
 Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. (E443 .S39 2000)
 
Shoemaker, Don, ed. With All Deliberate Speed: Segregation-Desegregation in Southern Schools.
 New York: Harper, 1957. (LC212.5W571957)

Siddle Walker, Vanessa. Their Highest Potential: An African-American School Community in the

Segregated South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. (LC2802.N8S531996)

Simms, Lois Averetta. A Chalk and Chalkboard Career in Carolina. New York: Vantage Press, 1995.

(LA2315 .S6S551995)

Simms, Lois Averetta. Profiles of African-American Females in the Lowcountry of South Carolina.

Charleston: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, 1992.

(E185.93S7S551992)

Smedley, Katherine. Martha Schofield and the Re-Education of the South, 1839-1916. Lewiston, NY:

Mellen Press, 1987. (E449S292S631988)

 
Smith, John David. Black Voices from Reconstruction, 1865-1877. Gainesville: University Press of 
 Florida, 1997. (E185.2 .S66 1997)
 
Smith, Willy DeMarcell, and Eva Wells Chunn, eds. Black Education: a Quest for Equity and 
 Excellence. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1989. (LC2717B541989)

Southern Education Foundation. On the Right Side of History: Lessons from Brown.  Atlanta, GA: 
 Southern Education Foundation, 2004. (KF4155 .S59 2004)
 
Spivey, Donald. Schooling for the New Slavery: Black Industrial Education, 1868-1915. Westport, 
 CT: Greenwood Press, 1978. (LC2801S65)
 
Stone, Donald P. Fallen Prince: William James Edwards, Black Education, and the Quest for Afro-
 American Nationality. Snow Hill, AL: Snow Hill Press, 1990. (E185.97E35S761990)

Taylor, Mary. A History of the Memminger Normal School, Charleston, SC. Charleston: Walter,

Evan, and Cogswell Co., 1941. (LB1954C49T3)

The State of Black South Carolina: An Action Agenda for the Future. Columbia, SC: Columbia

Urban League, 1991. (E185.93S7S72)

 
Trillin, Calvin. An Education in Georgia: Charlayne Hunter, Hamilton Holmes, and the Integration 
of the University of Georgia.  Athens: Brown Thrasher Books: University of Georgia Press, 1991. (LD1986T751991)
 
Tushnet, Mark V. The NAACP's Legal Strategy Against Segregated Education, 1925-1950.   Chapel 
 Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.  (KF4155T871987)

United States Commission on Civil Rights. Survey of School Desegregation in the Southern and

Border States, 1965-66: A Report. Washington, D.C.: US Govt. Print Off., 1996.

(LB3062U63341966)

 
Urban, Wayne J. Black Scholar: Horace Mann Bond, 1904-1972. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 
 1992. (E185.97B68U731992) 

Vaughn, William Preston. Schools for All: the Blacks and Public Education in the South, 1865-1877.

Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1974. (LC280259V38)

 
Washington, Booker T. Character Building: Being Addresses Delivered on Sunday Evenings to the 
Students of Tuskegee Institute. New York: Doubleday Page & Company, 1902. (BJ1531W331902)
 
Wilkinson, J. Harvie. From Brown to Bakke: the Supreme Court and School Integration, 
 1954-1978.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. (KF4155W54)
 
Williams, Robin Murphy, and Margaret W. Ryan, eds.  Schools in Transition: Community Experiences 
 in Desegregation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1954. (LB3062W51954)

Willie, Charles V., Antoine M. Garibaldi, and Womie L. Reed, eds. The Education of African-

Americans. Boston: William Monroe Trotter Institute, University of Massachusetts, 1990. (LC2717E291990)

Wilson, Erlene B. The 100 Best Colleges for African-American Students. New York: Plume, 1993.

(L901 .W581993)

 
Wolters, Raymond. The Burden of Brown: Thirty Years of School Desegregation.  Knoxville: 
 University of Tennessee Press, 1984. (KF4155W641984)
 
Woodson, Carter Godwin. The Education of the Negro. Brooklyn: A&B Publishers Group, 1999.
 (LC2741 .W7 1999)
 
Woodson, Carter Godwin. The Miseducation of the Negro. Grand Rapids, MI: Candace Press, 1996.

(PS508.N3 H47 1996, v.11)

Wright, Arthur D. The Negro Rural School Fund (Anna T. Jeanes Foundation) 1907-1933 A Record

of Establishment Fund. Washington, D.C.: The Negro Rural School Fund, Inc., 1933.

(LC2707N41933)

Dissertations

Addo, Linda D. “A Historical Analysis of the Impact of Selected Teachers on Education for Blacks

in Coastal South Carolina.” The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, DAI, 1988.

(LC2802S6A221988a)

 
Anderson, James D. “Education for Servitude: the Social Purposes of Schooling in the
 Black South, 1870-1930.” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, DAI, 1973.
 (LC2801A821973a) 
 
Conkright, Tommy Dean.  “Home Culture Influences on Learning about Natural Phenomena in 
School: a Case Study Among the Kpa-Mende of Sierra Leone.” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, DAI, 1974. (LA1641C661974a)
 
Eleady-Cole, Nathalie Ina Koto. “Educational Perspectives, Aspirations and Expectations in Sierra 
 Leone.”  University of Wisconsin--Madison, DAI, 1980. (LA1641E531980a)

Fitchett, Elijah H. “The Free Negro in Charleston, South Carolina.” The University of Chicago, DAI,

1950. (F279C49N41651950a)

Floyd, Jeremiah. “A Study of Displaced Black High School Principals in the State of South Carolina:

1963-1970.” Northwestern University, DAI, 1973. (LC2731F561973a)

 
Glascoe, Myrtle Gonza. “The Educational Thought of William Edward Burghardt DuBois: an 
 Evolutionary Perspective.” Harvard Graduate School of Education, DAI, 1980.
 (E185.97D73G51)
 
Griffin, Paul R.  “Black Founders of Reconstruction Era Methodist Colleges: Daniel A. Payne, Joseph 
 C. Price, and Isaac Lane, 1863-1890.” Emory University, DAI, 1983. (BX8449P3G741983a)

Hathaway, Joseph Michael. “The Class of 1944 of Lincoln High School: Finding Excellence in a Black

Segregated School.” University of South Carolina, DAI, 1997. (LC2779 .H38 1997a)

Hoit-Thetford, Elizabeth. “An Educational History of the Gullahs of Coastal South Carolina from

1700 to 1900.” East Tennessee State University, DAI, 1986. (LA361H65a)

Jabs, Albert Emil. “The Mission of Voorhees College: Its Roots and Its Future (South Carolina).”

University of South Carolina, DAI, 1983. (LD5701V85J321983a)

Johnson, Elliott McClintock. “The Influence of Blacks on the Development and Implementation of

the Public Education System in South Carolina, 1863-1876.” The American University, DAI,

1978. (LA361J591978a)

 
Martin, Josephine W. “The Educational Efforts of the Major Freedmen's Aid Societies and the 
Freedmen's Bureau in South Carolina, 1862-1870.”  University of South Carolina, DAI, 1971. (E185.93.S7 M37 1971a) 

Oldendorf, Sandra Brenneman. “Highlander Folk School and the South Carolina Sea Island

Citizenship Schools: Implications for the Social Studies (Civil Rights).” University of

Kentucky, DAI, 1987. (JK17590521987a)

Robinson, James Christopher. “South Carolina’s Black Colleges: A Strategy for Survival.” University

of Massachusetts, DAI, 1973. (LC2802S6R631973a)

Sanford, Paul Laurence. “The Origins and Development of Higher Education for Negroes in South

Carolina to 1920.” The University of New Mexico, DAI, 1965. (LC2802S6S361965a)

Toland, Lisa Denise. “The Effects of Education on the Success and Behavior of South Carolina Black

Legislators: 1868-1902, 1970-1989.” University of Georgia, DAI, 1989. (JK4260.5A34T641989a)

Woodfaulk, Courtney Sanabria. “The Jeanes Teachers of South Carolina: The Emergence, Existence,

and Significance of Their Work (Black Education).” University of South Carolina, DAI, 1992. (LB17763S6W661992a)