Introducing Harlem Prep: Expanding the Lineage of Multicultural Education in the Civil Rights Era

• In Event: The Climate of Multicultural Education: Investigating Policy and Praxis

Abstract

This paper explores the history of multicultural education through a case study of Harlem Prep, an independent alternative community school that existed in Harlem from 1967 to 1974. This paper argues that multiculturalism was occurring in the civil rights era and has a longer lineage than traditional scholarship recognizes.

Author

• Barry Goldenberg, Institute for Urban and Minority Education - Teachers College - Columbia University