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A 10 page book review of a slim volume, consisting of just three chapters, Adam Fairclough's Teaching Equality presents a fair, reasoned and detailed look at the contributions of black educators to the cause of equality in during the Jim Crow era. This examination of his text offers a brief summary of each chapter. No additional sources cited.
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in during the Jim Crow era. The following examination of his text offers a brief summary of each chapter. Chapter 1, Liberation or Collaboration? In this introductory
chapter, Fairclough states the overall subject for his text, which is the "role of African American educators in shaping the black struggle for equality" (1). His principal premise is that
the history of black southerners cannot be fully comprehended unless such an examination also includes looking at the "teachers who symbolized, articulated and furthered their aspirations" (Fairclough 1). The author
explains that education constituted a political "battlefield" and that teachers were at its center, as they typically played a influential and broad role in the life of black communities. Southern
white sought to control black teachers because they were fearful that educated blacks would lead movements toward greater equality (Fairclough 1-2). Some whites opposed black education entirely. Even within the
black community, as a whole, there was dissention as many disagreed with the stance of Booker T. Washington, the most influential black leader in America between 1895 and 1915 and
the founder of a black school in Tuskegee, Alabama (Fairclough 2). Fairclough goes on to set the parameters of this debate against the backdrop of black experience in regards
to both slavery and racial segregation. He points out that it did not take crusading "New England missionaries" to teach Southern blacks the importance of literacy and that a remarkable
number of blacks had acquired literacy skills clandestinely while under slaverys domination (Fairclough 3). However, as illiteracy rates still ran high among freed slaves, black teachers became the focus of
political leadership. Their influence continued to persist even when the end of the Reconstruction era brought black disenfranchisement. As economic opportunities were limited for educated blacks during this time, "preaching
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