The Mis-Education Of The Negro
Dr. Carter G. Woodson
Published in 1933
"How We Missed The Mark"
Chapter 2 Pg. 9
7 Pages
What was the Negroe's role? What was his condition?
A. There was poverty for a generation after the emancipation.
Pg.10
B. The Negro was nominally free but economically enslaved.
C. Negroes join with the uneducated whites to develop a public
school system.
D. When the Negro realized he was wasting time learning to do
irrelevant things, he attempted to migrate or go back to
Africa.
E. New hope for the Negro came with a new educational system.
F. There were now two educational systems to debate over: The
Classical and the Industrial. They argued for a
generation. Pg. 14
G. The Classical School was to train the Negro in advanced phases
of science, math and languages, liberal education, and the
industrial school taught courses on obsolete machinery.
H. Neither school benefited the Negro. Quarrelling over the
schools did not produce any good of either of them.
Civil War Period 1863-1865 First Re-construction Act passed 1867. A second was eventually passed.
A. Education of the Negro after the war was a philanthropic
endeavor.
B. Teaching them the simple duties of life, Reconstruction or
Freeman Schools were developed.
C. A plan was bought forth organizing churches and schools.
The Reconstruction Period produced....
A. A generation of poverty after the war
B. The birth of first plan for democratic education i.e., a
school system at public expense.
C. Institutions of a classical order were being established.
D. Reconstruction Schools were produced that did not connect the
Negro life as it was.
The Influence on the Negro
A. Deprive of political influence. Pg. 11
B. Unprepared to participate in the industrial development
underway.
C. There was no learning to do the work at hand.
D. Frustrated to migrate or consider urgings to go back to
Africa.
E. A distinction was made between the training of the Negro and
whites. Pg. 12
New Directions
A. A wave of industrial education swept the country.
B. Black Belt began to change the training of the Negro.
C. The Industrial and Classical education systems became strong
allies.
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