E. J. Edmunds, School Integration, and White Supremacist Backlash in Reconstruction New Orleans

Autor/in	Zelbo, Sian
Titel	E. J. Edmunds, School Integration, and White Supremacist Backlash in Reconstruction New Orleans
Quelle	In: History of Education Quarterly, 59 (2019) 3, S.379-406 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-2680
Schlagwörter	Educational History; United States History; African American Teachers; Racial Bias; Racial Discrimination; High School Teachers; Politics of Education; Public Schools; School Desegregation; Urban Schools; Civil Rights; African American Education; Multiracial Persons; Access to Education; Educational Discrimination; Louisiana (New Orleans) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; African Americans; Teacher; Teachers; Afroamerikaner; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Racial bias; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Integrative Schule; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Mischling; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang
Abstract	When the New Orleans school board appointed E. J. Edmunds, a light-skinned Afro-Creole man, the mathematics teacher for the city's best high school in 1875, the senior students walked out rather than have a "negro" as a teacher of "white youths." Edmunds's appointment was a final, bold act by the city's mixed-race intellectual elite in exercising the political power they held under Radical Reconstruction to strip racial designations from public schools. White supremacist Redeemers responded with a vicious propaganda campaign to define, differentiate, and diminish the "negro race." Edmunds navigated the shifting landscape of race in the New Orleans public schools first as a student and then as a teacher, and the details of his life show the impact on ordinary Afro-Creoles as the city's warring politicians used the public schools both to undermine and reinforce the racial order. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01