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New Negroes on Campus: St. Clair Drake and the Culture of Education, Reform, and Rebellion at Hampton Institute

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Andrew J. Rosa
Andrew J. Rosa*
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As the New Century began… more blacks and whites than ever before had lost faith in one another… The South, everyone could see, had changed enormously over the last quarter century. Everyone could see, too, that the new order came with heavy costs. Edward Ayers

The Negro race needs colleges. We need them today as never before; but we do not need colleges so much that we can sacrifice the manhood and womanhood of our children to the thoughtlessness of the North or the prejudice of the South. W. E. B. Du Bois

My experiences as a student at Hampton Institute in Virginia moved me to want to study, understand, and change the odd world of Jim Crow. St. Clair Drake.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 53 , Issue 3 , August 2013 , pp. 203 - 232
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