Encyclopedia of African-American Education.
JONES-WILSON, Faustine C., ASBURY, Charles A., OKAZAWA-REY, Margo,
ANDERSON, D. Kamili, JACOBS, Sylvia M., & FULTZ, Michael (Eds.).
Encyclopedia of African-American Education. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. 584pp. $95.00 (h).
This comprehensive encyclopedia presents the significant issues,
policies, historical events, laws, theories, and persons related to the
education of African-Americans. Through several hundred alphabetically
arranged entries, the volume chronicles the history of African-American
education from the systematic, long-term denial of schooling to blacks
before the Civil War, to the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau
and the era of Reconstruction, to Brown v. Board of Education and the
civil rights reforms of the last few decades. Entries include
bibliographies; a selected bibliography of general sources concludes the
volume.