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  1. One Jew’s Rebuttal to the Civil Rights Movement
    date 1957 to 1960map Leflore, Mississippitags integration/segregation, Civil Rights Movement, Education, Jewish

    In 1957, an anonymous Jewish citizen in Greenwood, MS created a pamphlet called “A Jewish View on Segregation”. In his pamphlet, he gives an account of why the Jewish population should prefer segregation. His premise is the same as White Southerners “that the innate inferiority of African Americans would leave them incapable of competing on equal terms in an integrated society”. He claims that...

  2. Native American Education Improves Under U.S. Government
    date 1976map District of Columbia, District of Columbiatags Race Relations, Politics, Law, Government, Education, Native-Americans

    The Third Annual Report to the Congress of the United States outlined the needs, concerns, funding, and progresses of the Indian educational system set forth by the government. The National Advisory Council on Indian Education created this report in 1976 in Washington, D.C. The president of the United States appointed this council in order to assist the 570 native groups affected by the regulations...

  3. Something from Nothing: How Kate Drumgoold Directed Her Own Future
    date 1870map CHESTERFIELD, Virginiatags Education, Slavery, Women, African-Americans

    Kate Drumgoold walked through the door of the school room, the fee for her education in one hand and a Bible in the other. The funds her church had raised to put her through school had been stolen from her, but her passion had not been taken along with it. Saving up her earnings to pay for her schooling had been difficult, but her dream of one day being able to teach fellow former slaves to read and...

  4. Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute Flyer
    date September 15, 1892map CHESTERFIELD, Virginiatags Education, African-Americans

    In 1892 the administrative staff at Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute (what is today Virginia State University) created a flyer for the prospective students giving them general information about the Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute's entrance requirements, educational programs, and cost. It was very important during the 1890s to create this type of flyer, since this was the main source...

  5. University of South Carolina Bulletin: Mill Villages in South Carolina act under a feudalistic system that is adverse to the growth of the state.
    date 1911 to 1934map Richland, South Carolinatags Columbia, Education, Mill Village, U of South Carolina, Legislation

    The frequently ignored peoples that lived in the mill villages of South Carolina are made to sound as if immediate legislation was needed to ameliorate their unique situation. Thomas F. Parker, who made this speech, was one of the owners of the Monaghan Mill. Parker had an agenda, clearly evidenced by his speech as having to do with paternalism and its correlation to mill village life. Parker wanted...

  6. Lincoln Elementary and High School, McClennanville, SC: A Standing Artifact of Desegregation in South Carolina
    date 1955 to 1960map Greenville, South Carolinatags equalization schools, Supreme Court, construction, Lincoln, Greenville, SC, South Carolina, Educational System, Brown vs. Board of Educat, Education, Desegregation

    A photograph of Lincoln Elemetary and High School, as it still stands in McClennanville, South Carolina, an unoccupied building with boarded windows, is the starting point for this episode in American history. The photograph was taken by Rebekah Dobrasko, in 2008, as part of a master's thesis on equalization schools in South Carolina. Across the state of South Carolina from 1951-1960, a wave of new...

  7. Women In The Education Arena
    date November 9, 1837 to July 4, 1838map HAMPSHIRE, Massachusettstags Emma Willard, Mary Lyon, Northeast, Women's colleges, Female Seminaries, Education, Women

    On November 9th, 1837, Mrs. Pamela Burr wrote a letter to Mary Lyon, a leader of the women’s rights leader and educator, urging her to consider her two daughters for admission to Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. The letter describes the qualifications of two young girls, Caroline and Mary Burr, in detail. Mrs. Burr says that she is not extremely wealthy but could pay tuition for both girls...

  8. Women in Education During the 19th Century
    date June, 1878 to 1878map AUGUSTA, Virginiatags Education, Women

    “From my own personal knowledge of the school, I cordially commend it, as one of the very best female schools within my knowledge, in the Southern states”. This is just one of many testimonials taken from an advertising pamphlet from the Virginia Female Institute, published in June 1878. During the 19th century, women were finding new ways to exert freedom and attempt to obtain power. One of the...

  9. Caroline Cutler Metcalf's Role in Education
    date November 11, 1874map BRISTOL, Massachusettstags Education, Women's History

    On November 11, 1874, S.C. Beach wrote a letter to Mrs. Caroline Cutler Metcalf.  Mrs. Metcalf was the first long-term principal of Wheaton Female Seminary.  Beach wrote to Mrs. Metcalf primarily to relay a message from Reverand Edward Everette Hale.  In a conversation between Beach and Hale, Hale had stated that he had never seen a paper written by a Wheaton Female Seminary student that was not...

  10. To Marry or Not to Marry in Mid-Nineteenth Century America
    date 1859map BRISTOL, Massachusettstags Marriage, Education, Women

    “Count Time by Heart-throbs” by E.M Grout, is an excerpt from Volume 5 of Wheaton College in Massachusetts’ publication, Rushlight. Written in 1859, the literary piece begins by expressing the unsettled feeling that women encounter during the process of growing older. The fear of growing old is attached to the stigma of being old and unmarried, or becoming an “old maid.” Grout explains the...

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