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ERIC Number: EJ574673
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-1077-3711
The White Man's Fear of the Educated Negro: How the Negro Was Fitted for His Natural and Logical Calling.
Litwack, Leon F.
Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, n20 p100-08 Sum 1998
Reviews the historic white fear of the educated black man in the Jim Crow period and earlier, when education of the African American was seen as a threat to the stable workforce African Americans represented. Curtailing educational opportunity was an important means of racial control. (SLD)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Blacks, Educational Attainment, Educational History, Equal Education, Racial Discrimination, Racial Relations, School Segregation, Social Control, United States History, Whites
Publication Type: Historical Materials; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: African Americans