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  2. History of African-American education - Wikipedia

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    The History of African-American education deals with the public and private schools at all levels used by African Americans in the United States and for the related policies and debates. Black schools, also referred to as "Negro schools" and " colored schools ", were racially segregated schools in the United States that originated in the ...

  3. African-American teachers - Wikipedia

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    An African-American teacher. African-American teachers educated African Americans and taught each other to read during slavery in the South. People who were enslaved ran small schools in secret, since teaching those enslaved to read was a crime (see Slave codes). Meanwhile, in the North, African Americans worked alongside Whites. Many ...

  4. Racial achievement gap in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The racial achievement gap in the United States refers to disparities in educational achievement between differing ethnic/racial groups. [1] It manifests itself in a variety of ways: African-American and Hispanic students are more likely to earn lower grades, score lower on standardized tests, drop out of high school, and they are less likely to enter and complete college than whites, while ...

  5. American Teachers Association - Wikipedia

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    The American Teachers Association (1937–1966), formerly National Colored Teachers Association (1906–1907) and National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools (1907–1937), was a professional association and teachers' union representing teachers in schools in the South for African Americans during the period of legal racial segregation in United States.

  6. The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860–1935 - Wikipedia

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    The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860–1935 is a history of African-American education in the American South from the Reconstruction era to the Great Depression.It was written by James D. Anderson and published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1988.

  7. History of education in the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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    Washington championed industrial education for African Americans on the basis of its practicality, whereas W.E.B. DuBois emphasized the importance of offering African Americans the opportunity to prove themselves equal to whites by succeeding in traditional, classically oriented B.A. degree programs. [41]

  8. 31 Black History Facts You May Not Have Learned in School

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    Resources like BlackPast.org, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Library of Congress are great ways to learn little-known facts about Black history and broaden ...

  9. Historically black colleges and universities - Wikipedia

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    Rod Paige, first African-American to serve as the U.S. education chief - Jackson State University; Walter Payton, considered one of the greatest running backs in NFL history – Jackson State University; Anika Noni Rose, the original voice of the first African American Disney princess - Florida A&M University