Envisioning black colleges

Gasman, Marybeth.

Envisioning black colleges a history of the United Negro College Fund / [electronic resource] : Marybeth Gasman ; foreword by John R. Thelin. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. - xvii, 269 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-259) and index.

Black colleges and the origins of the United Negro College Fund -- Bringing the millionaires on board -- Flirting with social equality: New York's elite women raise funds -- A stigma of inferiority: the effect of Brown v. Board -- Responding to the black consciousness movement -- Speaking out on behalf of black colleges -- "A mind is a terrible thing to waste" -- An organization that no one could argue against.


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