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Northern Philanthropy and Black Education
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 February 2017
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1. Two recent articles which deal with black education in the 1920s and 1930s are Anderson, James D., “Northern Foundations and the Shaping of Southern Black Rural Education, 1902–1935”, History of Education Quarterly 18 (Winter 1978):371–96 and Grant, Nancy L., “Government Social Planning and Education for Blacks: The TVA Experience” in Education and the Rise of the New South ed. Goodenow, Ronald K. and White, Arthur O. (Boston, 1981), pp. 215–236. For a recent review on the history of southern educational history see Neufeldt, Harvey and Allison, Clinton B., “Education and the Rise of the New South: An Historiographical Essay” in Education and the Rise of the New South, ed. Goodenow, and White, , pp. 250–93.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2. On the early establishment of the Port Royal Experiment during the Civil War see Rose, Willie Lee, Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment (New York, 1964).Google Scholar
3. The definitive study of the Yankee schoolmarm until the mid 1960s was Swint's, Henry L., The Northern Teacher in the South, 1862–1870 (Nashville, 1941). The most derogatory stereotype of the Yankee schoolmarm was developed by Wilbur Cash in his classic study, The Mind of the South (New York, 1942), p. 137. See also Small, Sandra E., “The Yankee Schoolmarm in Freedman's Schools: An Analysis of Attitudes”, Journal of Southern History 45 (August 1979):381–84; Jones, Jacqueline, Soldiers of Light and Love: Northern Teachers and Georgia Blacks, 1865–1873 (Chapel Hill, 1980), pp. 5–7, and Neufeldt, and Allison, , “Education and the Rise of the New South”, pp. 257–58.Google Scholar
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18. Maxy, , “Progressivism and Rural Education in the Deep South, 1900–1950”, pp. 47–71.Google Scholar
19. Link, William, “Making the Inarticulate Speak: A Reassessment of Public Education in the Rural South, 1870–1920”, paper presented at the Conference on Education and Society in the South: A Regional Perspective, Atlanta, GA, 25–26 March 1982.Google Scholar
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21. I am indebted to Lester Lamon, Indiana University at South Bend, for the observation that Jacoway's study dealt with a unique community.Google Scholar
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