Countering the Stereotype: Black-led Schools of High Quality prior to Desegregation

• In Event: Rethinking Higher Education

Brief Overview

We confirm that Black education in the rural South was marginal prior to desegregation. However, in populated areas of the South and Border States Black-led high schools achieved quality beyond expectations for the discrimination of the Jim Crow era.

Authors

• Shayla C. Nunnally, The University of Tennessee-Knoxville

• Frank T. Manheim, George Mason University