Abstract
During the Jim Crow period of racial segregation, higher education provided one of the few avenues for black women to participate in citizenship. Societal understandings of race, gender, and class fundamentally distinguished the higher educational experiences of black and white women. The founding of Bennett College for Women, one of two historically black colleges for women, provided a rare space for black women to exercise citizenship. Moreover, examination of Bennett College for Women’s educational model reveals how the College provided a progressive liberal arts education to black working-class women by manipulating conservative understandings of race, gender, and education. In doing so, Bennett College for Women expanded the scope of who was responsible for racial progress and the scope of black women’s role as citizen.
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