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Up From Slavery: A Documentary

History of Negro Education

Compiled By Rudolph Lewis

 

 Photo left: Lucille Bluford
 

 

Lucille Bluford, born in 1901, was denied admission to the University of Missouri-Columbia's School of Journalism in 1939 because she was African American, Lincoln's School of Journalism was created.. She became the managing editor and later the owner of the Kansas City Call. Lucille Bluford was also the first Black female to be enshrined in the National Newspaper Publishers Association.

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Source: http://www.law.du.edu/russell/lh/sweatt/ctm/ctm3-12.htm

 

 

Many states had laws prohibiting the education of blacks; here black youngsters are turned away at the school door

 Sources:

Chapter VI. "The Instruction of Negroes." In Edgar W. Knight. A Documentary History of Education in the South before 1860. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina, 1953

Chapter 10 "Up From Slavery: Educational and other Rights of Negroes." In Edgar W. Knight and Clifton L. Hall. Readings in American Educational History. New York Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1951.

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