- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- Lifted as they climbed: A study into the Black tradition of resistance and the Black education movement in Post-Civil War Georgia, 2020
- Creator:
- Veasley, Milton L.
- Date of Original:
- 2020-12
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- born digital
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- During and after chattel slavery African Americans actively participated in movements towards freedom through literacy. Considering the severe enforcement of antebellum anti-literacy laws and manifestations of racial hostilities, post-Civil War African Americans forged constructive self-reliant pathways to acquire knowledge with remarkable success. This study is based on the premise that the black education movement during and after emancipation is linked to a black tradition of resistance. The work uses a case analysis of nineteenth-century educator Lucy C. Laney to explore her educational activism in relation to previous modes of resistance in education. The conclusions drawn from the findings suggest that Laney’s contributions were a continuation of earlier efforts of those who sought to lift as they climbed in literacy.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:2020_veasley_milton_l
- Rights Holder:
- Clark Atlanta University
- Original Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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