TY - JOUR
AU1 - Donohue, John J.
AU2 - Heckman, James J.
AU3 - Todd, Petra E.
AB - Improvements in education and educational quality are widely acknowledged to be major contributors to black economic progress in the twentieth century. This paper investigates the sources of improvement in black education in the South in the first half of the century and demonstrates the important roles of social activism, especially NAACP litigation and private philanthropy, in improving the quality and availability of public schooling. Many scholars view education as a rival to social activism in explaining black economic progress, but such a view misses the important role of philanthropic and legal interventions in promoting education.
TI - The Schooling of Southern Blacks: The Roles of Legal Activism and Private Philanthropy, 1910–1960*
JF - The Quarterly Journal of Economics
DO - 10.1162/003355302753399490
DA - 2002-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-schooling-of-southern-blacks-the-roles-of-legal-activism-and-G8XOBp9LH9
SP - 225
EP - 268
VL - 117
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -