Oberlin College and the Negro Student, 1865-1940

1971 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. E. Bigglestone
Keyword(s):  
Negro Student ◽  
Oberlin College

The Spanish Drama Collection in the Oberlin College Library

Books Abroad ◽  
1941 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 455
Author(s):  
H. K. L. ◽  
Paul Patrick Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Oberlin College ◽  
College Library

scholarly journals From Evangelicalism to Progressivism at Oberlin College, 1866-1917

1970 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
David D. Van Tassel ◽  
John Barnard
Keyword(s):  
Oberlin College

The Segregation of Black Students at Oberlin College after Reconstruction

2001 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cally L. Waite
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Black Students ◽  
Black Families ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Educational History ◽  
College Curriculum ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oberlin College ◽  
One Year

The community of Oberlin, Ohio, located in the northeast corner of the state, holds an important place in the history of the education of Black Americans. In 1834, one year after its founding, the trustees of Oberlin College agreed to admit students, “irrespective of color.” They were the only college, at that time, to adopt such a policy. Oberlin's history as the first college to admit Black students and its subsequent abolitionist activities are crucial to the discussion of Black educational history. Opportunities for education before the Civil War were not common for most of the American population, but for Blacks, these opportunities were close to nonexistent. In the South, it was illegal for Blacks to learn to read or write. In the North, there was limited access to public schooling for Black families. In addition, during the early nineteenth century there were no Black colleges for students to attend. Although Bowdoin College boasted the first Black graduate in 1827, few other colleges before the Civil War opened their doors to Black students. Therefore, the opportunity that Oberlin offered to Black students was extraordinarily important. The decision to admit Black students to the college, and offer them the same access to the college curriculum as their white classmates, challenged the commonly perceived notion of Blacks as childlike, inferior, and incapable of learning.

Lynn Powell

2020 ◽  
pp. 323-325
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Oberlin College

Born and reared in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Lynn Powell often focuses her poetry on spirituality and its infusion into daily life. She attended Carson-Newman College, where she received her BA (1977), and she earned her MFA at Cornell University (1980). Powell has focused on bringing poetry into public schools, both during her work as a writer in the schools for the Tennessee Arts Commission and in her later role as the director of the Writers in the Schools program at Oberlin College....

Johnson, Georgia Douglas (1877?–1966)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Stephens-Lorenz
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Harlem Renaissance ◽  
Normal School ◽  
New Negro ◽  
School Class ◽  
Georgia Douglas Johnson ◽  
Oberlin College

Georgia Douglas Johnson was a multitalented artist of the New Negro/Harlem Renaissance era who wrote poetry, plays, short stories, music, and newspaper columns from her home in Washington, D.C. She was born in Atlanta, Georgia and was a member of Atlanta University’s Normal School class of 1893. She studied music at Oberlin College and wrote songs from 1908 until 1959.

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