Model Schools in the Model City
Amber N. Wiley
University of Pittsburgh Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Architektur
Beschreibung
Access to educational resources has been a tool of liberation for Black Americans from the antebellum period to the present. With this book, Amber N. Wiley emphasizes the value of education as a means for social equality—Black Americans wanted the American Dream to apply to them, and equal opportunity for quality education was at the forefront of making that dream a reality. <i>Model Schools in the Model City </i>chronicles how Black Washingtonians used public education as a means of racial uplift in the face of entrenched white resistance and repeated assertions of white supremacy. For Black Washingtonians, it was the school building—a permanent structure, made of sturdy material—that was the physical realization of Black liberation, agency, and the right to exist as citizens of the United States. Furthermore, it was the school building that stood as the litmus test to whether Black Washingtonians’ citizenship was perpetually guaranteed; thus, they fought with all the tools at their disposal to maintain access to quality education in the nation’s capital. In this book, Wiley recounts the untold story of Black Washingtonians’ educational ambitions, especially as they were manifested in the schools themselves.
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Vernacular Architecture Forum, Society of Architectural Historians, African American History, Race and education, Urban History Association, History of Washington D.C., World Heritage USA, Association for the Study of African American Life and History, Center for the Preservation of Civil Rites Sites, Society for American City and Regional Planning History, National Organization of Minority Architects, school design, educational planning, history of education, History of Public Education, architecture, school architecture, public education, University of Pittsburgh Press