The origin of public secondary education for blacks in Atlanta, Georgia 1917 to 1927, 1979
Collins, Linda G. H.
1979-05-01
1970-1979
The fight to establish tax-supported secondary education for Blacks in Georgia was an uphill struggle that began in most parts of the state in the 1930s. Booker T. Washington Junior- Senior High School of Atlanta, which opened in 1924, was one of the earliest public high schools for Blacks in the state. Although it was one of the first public high schools for Blacks in Georgia, it lagged fifty-two years behind the opening of the first tax-supported high schools for Whites in Atlanta. Black Atlantans were without a public high school for over one-half a century because of the social, political and educational constraints on their lives in the decades between the 1870s and 1920s. In a strategic effort to resist their educational oppression, Black Atlantans united politically between 1917 and 1921 to bring about the creation of the city's first Black public high school. This thesis encompasses a decade of struggle. It analyzes the political forces that laid the groundwork for the school beginning in 1917 and extends its study up to 1927 when the high school had its first graduating class. Chapters I and II give a general background about Black life in Georgia and in Atlanta with respect to politics, race relations, and secondary education between 1890 and 1930. These chapters provide a general state-wide orientation to the study of the emergence of Black public secondary education in Georgia's largest city. Chapter III retraces and analyzes the political fight that created the high school between 1917 and 1923. Chapter IV extends the study through the first three formative years of the school's existence. Chapter IV also gives particular attention to a comparative study of the growth of Black and White public secondary education from 1923 to 1927. The primary sources used for this thesis include the Atlanta Board of Education Minutes from 1917 to 1927 and other related sources.
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Master of Arts (MA)
Atlanta University
Department of History
Rowley, Margaret N.
Clark Atlanta University
Georgia--Atlanta
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1979_collins_linda_gh
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
