Community, Race, and Curriculum in Detroit: The Northern High School Walkout

Autor/in	Franklin, Barry M.
Titel	Community, Race, and Curriculum in Detroit: The Northern High School Walkout
Quelle	In: History of Education, 33 (2004) 2, S.137-156 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0046-760X
Schlagwörter	Low Achievement; Racial Relations; Urban Schools; Activism; African American Community; Whites; African American Students; Racial Differences; Educational History; Secondary Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Unterdurchschnittliche Leistung; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; White; Weißer; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Rassenunterschied; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Sekundarbereich
Abstract	This essay examines the April 1966 student walkout at Detroit's all-black Northern High School and what the boycott tells us about the conflict between blacks and whites in that city over the education of African-American youth. The protest was one event in an ongoing struggle between Detroit's black citizens and the city's largely white educational establishment concerning the problem of low achievement among African-American students and its remedies. It was a conflict that pointed to the growing racial division that existed between black and white Detroiters. And it was a struggle that unified and solidified blacks by helping to construct and shape a sense of community among the city's black population. It is this latter effect of the events surrounding the walkout that will be my focus in this essay. The starting point for the essay is an examination of the walkout and what that protest tells us about black-white divisions over education in Detroit. The essay then seeks to establish a context for the walkout by looking first at the conflicts beginning in the late 1950s between and among blacks and whites over curriculum differentiation and student transfer policies and then at the appearance on the scene in the aftermath of the boycott of a black nationalist movement. Next, the essay explores how the walkout and the events surrounding it served as a unifying force to construct a sense of community among Detroit's black population. The essay concludes by considering why this instance of the forming of a black community is worthy of attention. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10