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Dangerous donations : northern philanthropy and southern Black education, 1902-1930

Annotation Eric Anderson & Alfred A. Moss, Jr., demonstrate the profound influence of such foundations as the Southern Education Board, the Rosenwald Fund, & the General Education Board. The impact of these organizations' activities reached far beyond the particular schools they supported. Their decisions influenced the contributing patterns of individual donors & other organizations with an interest in black education, as well as the emerging systems of public funding for blacks in southern states. These agencies helped shape U.S. race relations, with sometimes surprising implications for public & cultural values. Dangerous Donations explores the important limitations on the power of these foundations & their agents. The northern philanthropies had to move cautiously & conservatively, seeking the cooperation of southern whites whenever possible. They believed African Americans could not be excluded from education & must be prepared for productive participation in the South-whatever its social system-for the safety of the region & the nation as a whole. Blacks challenged the foundations, expressing their own agendas through resistance to policies of the northern agencies. The millions of dollars contributed by African Americans to schools for blacks reflected their refusal to give complete control of their schools to the white South or to distant philanthropists in the North
eBook, English, ©1999
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Mo., ©1999
History
1 online resource (xv, 245 pages) : illustrations
9780826264169, 0826264166
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Foreword / by Louis R. Harlan
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The African American agenda for education
Ogdenism and its enemies
The education of a philanthropist: William H. Baldwin, Jr., 1898-1905
The general education board's choices
The founding of the American Church Institute for Negroes, 1906-1914
The triumph of the South: Robert W. Patton and the ACIN
The transformation of Northern philanthropy for Black South
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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