Schools of Our Own
Schools of Our Own 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.…
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Schools of Our Own
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. 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. Following World War II, an unprecedented number of African Americans looked beyond the issue of racial integration by creating their own schools.
Even as the golden age came to an end, it foreshadowed the He chronicles the extraordinary measures they employed to secure what many in the United States took for granted.