Negro Education in Alabama: A Study in Cotton and Steel

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Horace Mann Bond was an early twentieth century scholar and a college administrator who focused on higher education for African Americans. His Negro Education in Alabama won Brown University’s Susan Colver Rosenberger Book Prize in 1937 and was praised as a landmark by W. E. B. Dubois in American Historical Review and by scholars in journals such as Journal of Negro Education and the Journal of Southern History.   A seminal and wide-ranging work that encompasses not only education per se but a keen analysis of the African American experience of Reconstruction and the following decades, Negro Education in Alabama illuminates the social and educational conditions of its period. Observers of contemporary education can quickly perceive in Bond’s account the roots of many of today’s educational challenges. Contents Introduction by Wayne J. Urban Preface I. Social and Economic Forces in the Making of Alabama II. The Education of Negroes Under "The Peculiar Institution" III. Social Forces in Reconstruction IV. Economic Forces in Alabama Reconstruction V. The Course of Political Reconstruction, 1865-1875 VI. The Beginning of an Educational System, 1860-1868 VII. Public Education of Negroes During Reconstruction VIII. The Objectives and Content of Reconstruction Education IX. Cotton and Steel: Economic Changes in Alabama, 1865-1900 X. Economic and Political Changes as Affecting the Education of Negroes, 1875-1900 XI. Race, Class, and the School Fund, 1875-1900 XII. The Constitutional Convention of 1901: Public Opinion of the Negro XIII. The Constitutional Convention of 1901: Taxation and Education XIV. The Influences of Personalities on the Public Education of Negroes in Alabama XV. Cotton and Steel: Economic Changes in Alabama, 1900-1930 XVI. Cotton Plus Steel Equals Schools, 1900-1930 XVII. Philanthropy and Negro Education XVIII. Conclusions: Negro Education in Alabama, a Study in Cotton and Steel Bibliography Notes Afterword by Martin Kilson Index