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The American Negro has considered education as the most significant solution in becoming free from the binds placed upon him throughout history by white society. Following the Civil War, the Negro desire to obtain an education resulted in the manifestation of Black colleges and universities all over the South. During this period of Reconstruction, as it was called, Booker T. Washington noted that, "It was a whole race trying to go to school." The increasing desire by Blacks to control the outcome and content of their education was emphasized even more by the famous debate between Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois.
Today, education maintains its role among African-Americans as hope for building a better future, both for themselves and for their posterity.
Contributors to Negro Education
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