Welcome
Welcome to your guide for exploring the history of African American education in the United States. Use the selected books below and links to the left to discover primary and secondary source materials.
Selected Books
Below is a list of helpful titles you might not easily find.
- Afro-Americans: Selected Documents by Reproductions of selected original sources documenting the black experience in the United States.Publication Date: 1972
- Bibliography of Publications of the U. S. Office of Education, 1867-1959ISBN: 0874710111Publication Date: 1971Also online
- Chronology of African American History by This chronological guide to the people, places and events significant to African American history includes details on important births and deaths, legislation and court decisions, rebellions and demonstrations, awards and honours, and elections and appointments. Brief biographies on many entries are also included, with excerpts from significant speeches, legislations, publications and other important documents.ISBN: 0810385732Publication Date: 1997
- Education in the States by v. 1 Historical Development and Outlook; v.2 Nationwide development since 1900Publication Date: 1969
- Education in the United States: A Documentary History by Collection of essential primary documents of the history of education in the United StatesISBN: 0394493761Publication Date: 1973
- Guide to African American and African Primary Sources at Harvard University by This guide is the first to provide an inventory of the remarkably vast, interdisciplinary African and African American holdings of primary material residing in 22 Harvard libraries and museums. An invaluable source for academic research, the guide demonstrates the breadth, depth, range, and nature of Harvard's collection of primary African and African American materials, which includes artifacts, diaries/letters, manuscripts, maps, oral histories, photographs, political posters, sheet music, and works of art.ISBN: 1573563390Publication Date: 2000
Allan Rohan Crite, School's Out, 1936, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum