African American education
Black community learning
African American education refers to the schooling and learning experiences of Black Americans, or to academic programs focused on that history.
The term often evokes the long struggle from slavery's prohibition on literacy through segregated schools to desegregation and beyond.
Her dissertation examined African American education in the Jim Crow South.
As a field of study, it overlaps with African American studies and examines persistent achievement gaps, historically Black colleges and universities, and educational equity.
- NAACPCivil rights advocacy organization
- school desegregationEnding racial separation in classrooms
- segregationForced separation by group
- equal opportunityUnbiased chance for all
- Tuskegee InstituteHistoric Black college in Alabama
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