Black Education in the Magnolia State

• In Event: AERA Graduate Student Research in Progress Roundtable Session Two
  In Roundtable Session: Historical Perspectives on Education: Accelerated Enrollment, Colonialism, Police in Schools, and Asian American Academic Achievement (Table 9)

Abstract

This historical research study examines the origins of Historically Black Junior College in the of Mississippi, which was founded during the Jim Crow era. By analyzing the autobiographical works of Black educator and entrepreneur, William H. Holtzclaw this study provides a narrative of Black excellence and a community's shared fight for liberation through education.

Author

• Hannah M. Kuneyl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Presenting Author