Interracial Cooperation and Southern Education between the Wars: Robert B. Eleazer and the Conference on Education and Race Relations

Autor/in	Ellis, Mark
Titel	Interracial Cooperation and Southern Education between the Wars: Robert B. Eleazer and the Conference on Education and Race Relations
Quelle	In: American Educational History Journal, 47 (2020) 2, S.143-159 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1535-0584
Schlagwörter	Racial Relations; Educational History; Competition; Essays; High School Students; African Americans; United States History; Social Studies; Whites; Civics; Educational Change; Regional Programs + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Wettkampf; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Afroamerikaner; Gemeinschaftskunde; White; Weißer; Staatsbürgerkunde; Bildungsreform; Regional program; Regional programme; Regionalprogramm
Abstract	Robert Burns Eleazer (1877-1973), a liberal white Methodist from Tennessee, served as the education director and director of publicity of the Atlanta-based Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC) from 1922 to 1942. As education director, he developed a strategy for improving race relations which entailed offering prizes to young people in the southern states for essays on racial minorities in American life and culture. Eleazer's role as the CIC's director of publicity meant constant communication with regional and national journals about lynching and its prevention, poverty, migration, policing, and justice in the courts. He also attempted to radically alter the social studies and civics curriculum in southern education. This article attempts to shed light on the CIC's education work and Eleazer's role and motives in devising and distributing his programs. It also shows how a regional effort to alter the outlook of a new generation concerning respect and human equality predated the intercultural education movement's attempts to do this on a larger scale after 1940 (Halvorsen and Mirel 2013). As such, it offers insights into a possible legacy of the interracial cooperation movement that followed World War I, to the civil rights movement that followed World War II. (ERIC).
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Update	2024/1/01