Development of African American Education

By TSayles

  • 350 acres+School willed in Virginia for African children

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    1800-2013

  • New York City opens first school for Black children

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  • Boston opens first school for Africans

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  • Mississippi starts laws that prohibit teaching reading and writing to Blacks

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  • Sophia B. Packard opens Negro college in GA.

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  • Pennsylvania denies petition to allow Freed Black children to attend public school.

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  • Prudence Crandell defies town and admits Black student to her school

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  • School for Blacks, funded by Blacks, opens in Cincinatti

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  • Ohio prohibits state funded education of Blacks

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  • Slavery ruled legal during Dred Scott case

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  • Civil War begins

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  • Lincoln institutes Emancipation Proclamation

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  • Lincoln passes bill creating public funded schools for Blacks in D.C.

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  • Slavery abolished by 13th Amend.

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    Black institutions of higher learning created-universities and colleges

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  • 14th amendment passes, granting Blacks citizenship and equal civil rights

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  • Reconstruction ends. Conservative state govts slow public, Black education

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  • Tuskegee Institute founded

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  • Plessy v Ferguson upheld to support seperate schools for Blacks and Whites

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  • W.E.B DuBpos forms charter committee that turns into NAACP

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  • Great depression starts

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  • 8% of Africn American population has high school diploma

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  • Southern born White and Black children have same level of educational attainment

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  • Plessy v Ferguson overturned. Separate is not equal per Brown v Board of Ed

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  • U.S. Commission on Civil Rights founded

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  • Federal Civil Rights Act-no discrimination based on race, color, national origin or sex.

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  • 30% African American population has high school diploma

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  • School desegregation ordered

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  • Prop 209 passes in CA. No discrimination or preferential treatment to any group based on race, color, sex or national origiin in reference to public education, employment and public contracting

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  • No Child Left Behind instituted

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  • 19% of African American students has completed four or more years of college.

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