Milestones in the history of the education of the Negro in the United States

Abstract

Much has been written, especially lately, both in the United States and abroad, about the problems connected with the education of the American Negro; most of it is influenced by strong emotions, hotheadedness, ignorance of facts, sympathy, anger, and fear. The difficulty is that the whole problem is presented along the ideological lines, although the issues concerning segregated education lie within the framework of a wider, pressing problem in America: the need to provide adequate educational opportunities for all American citizens.1) Furthermore, the problem of the American Negro is inseparable from other sociological factors relating to the Negro's existence in the United States as a citizen born in the United States; it is not just a problem of the South, as often supposed, since racial tensions that exist in Northern cities have often burst also into violence. The fact remains that the