The Journal of Negro Education: Howard University's Landmark Forum on Black Education, Civil Rights, and Social Change, 1967–1973.

Journal of Negro Education

Ephemera and pamphlets

[African American] [Education] Archive of five issues of The Journal of Negro Education: A Quarterly Review of Problems Incident to the Education of Negroes, published by The Howard University Press for the Bureau of Educational Research, Washington, D.C., between 1967 and 1973. Original printed blue wrappers. Founded in 1932 by educator and psychologist Charles Henry Thompson, the first African American to earn a doctorate in educational psychology and later Dean of Howard University's School of Education, the journal became one of the most influential scholarly publications devoted to the study of Black education in the United States.

Established during the era of Jim Crow segregation and continuing through the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, the journal sought to collect and disseminate research on the education of African Americans, critically evaluate educational policies and practices, and encourage scholarly investigation into issues affecting Black students and communities. By the 1960s and 1970s, it had become a leading forum for examining school desegregation, educational inequality, Black identity, poverty, higher education, and the social consequences of racial discrimination. The archive includes five substantial issues published during a transformative period in American education and race relations:

Winter 1967 (Vol. XXXVI, No. 1). Articles include Some Effects of Deprivation on Intelligence, Achievement, and Cognitive Growth; Notes on the Education of Negroes in North Carolina During the Civil War; The Negro Undergraduate Student: Factors Relative to Performance in Predominantly White State Colleges and Universities in Tennessee; and Beyond Poverty of Income. Published amid the national debate surrounding the War on Poverty and educational inequality.

Spring 1967 (Vol. XXXVI, No. 2). Features studies on school improvement, unemployment, emotional development among Black youth, and contemporary trends in Black education, reflecting growing concern over urban poverty and unequal educational opportunity.

Summer 1967 (Vol. XXXVI, No. 3). The annual Yearbook Number devoted to The Higher Education of Negro Americans: Prospects and Programs. Essays examine graduate education, the role of predominantly white institutions in educating Black students, educational opportunity, and the experiences of Black college students in the South. Issued during a period of rapidly expanding college enrollment and increasing demands for equal access to higher education.

Fall 1969 (Vol. XXXVIII, No. 4). Published in the aftermath of major civil rights legislation and amid widespread school desegregation efforts. Articles analyze academic desegregation, interracial attitudes among college students, self-concept among Black and white youth in segregated environments, and methodological questions surrounding social science research on race.

Winter 1973 (Vol. XLII, No. 1). Reflecting the intellectual climate of the Black Power era, this issue includes studies such as Differences Between Black Youth Who Support the Black Panthers and the NAACP; Do Black Studies Make a Difference in Ghetto Children's Achievements and Attitudes; The Children of Immigrants in the Schools; and School Desegregation, Socioeconomic Status, Sex and the Aspirations of Negro Adolescents. The issue captures scholarly efforts to evaluate the impact of Black Studies programs and evolving forms of Black political and educational activism.

Taken together, these volumes document some of the most significant debates in twentieth-century African American educational history, including segregation and desegregation, educational deprivation, Black identity formation, civil rights, Black Power, access to higher education, and the continuing struggle for educational equality. The contributors represent a generation of educators, psychologists, sociologists, and policy researchers whose work helped shape both academic scholarship and public discussion of race and education in the United States.

Light fading to wrappers, primarily along spines and edges, with minor staining and handling wear. Bindings remain sound and contents clean. Overall very good condition. An important scholarly archive documenting the evolution of Black educational thought during the Civil Rights and Black Power eras.

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