Schools of Our Own: Chicago's Golden Age of Black Private Education (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810141186)

Winner, 2020 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award

As battles over school desegregation helped define a generation of civil rights activism in the United States, a less heralded yet equally important movement emerged in Chicago. Following World War II, an unprecedented number of African Americans looked beyond the issue of racial integration by creating their own schools. This golden age of private education gave African Americans unparalleled autonomy to avoid discriminatory public schools and to teach their children in the best ways they saw fit. In Schools of Our Own, Worth Kamili Hayes recounts how a diverse contingent of educators, nuns, and political activists embraced institution building as the most effective means to attain quality education. Schools of Our Own makes a fascinating addition to scholarly debates about education, segregation, African American history, and Chicago, still relevant in contemporary discussions about the fate of American public schooling.

Author: Worth Kamili Hayes
ISBN-10: 0810141183
ISBN-13: 9780810141186
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2019
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2021