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This chapter will present a case study of the social studies curriculum of the National Training School for Women and Girls. In 1909, Nannie H. Burroughs created the National Training Schools for Women and Girls in Washington, DC, which was designed to teach African American girls skills needed to be intellectual contributors to the workforce. The leadership of Nannie H. Burroughs is analyzed as she attempts to develop a black history curriculum in her school. Primary source documents such as lesson plans, black history month agendas, and student work are analyzed in this important case study.
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Burroughs, Appreciation Day Program, Box 312, Library of Congress. The word “going” is in the program; it means the continuing struggle of African Americans.
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Des Jardins, Reclaiming the Past and Present, 265.
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Stephen G. Hall. A Faithful Account of the Race: African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth Century America. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
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Christine Woyshner, “Notes towards a Historiography of Social Studies,” in Research Methods in Social Studies Education: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives ed., Keith Barton (Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing, 2006), 3.
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Derrick Bell, “Brown v. Board of Education and the interest convergence dilemma,” Harvard Law Review 93: (Jan. 1980): 518–533.
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Gloria Ladson-Billings, “Just what is Critical Race Theory and what is it doing in a nice field like education?” Qualitative Studies in Education 11 (1998): 7–24.
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Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color,” Stanford Law Review 43, no. 6 (July 1991): 1241–1299.
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Vanessa Siddle Walker, Hello Professor: a black principal and professional leadership in the segregated south (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2009).
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Larry Cuban, How Teachers Taught: Constancy and Change in American Classrooms 1890–1990 (New York: Teacher College Press, 1994).
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Perry, Young, Gifted and Black, 88.
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Ibid.
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Burroughs, Miss Burroughs Appeals to Parents to Save Their Girls Now, undated, Box 46.
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Burroughs, Miss Burroughs Appeals to Parents to Save Their Girls Now, undated, Box 46.
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Burroughs, Faculty Meeting Notes, November 22, 1942, Box 46.
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Burroughs, Faculty Meeting Notes, Box 46.
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Burroughs, Code of Professional Ethics, undated, Box 311.
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Burroughs, Take Your Professional Temperature, undated, Box 311.
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Burroughs, Take Your Professional Temperature, undated, Box 311.
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Burroughs, N.T.&P Teachers’ Conference, November 8, 1941, Box 311.
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Burroughs, N.T.&P Teachers’ Conference, November 8, 1941, Box 311.
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Burroughs, Liberal Arts Division-Courses Given, Box 314.
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Burroughs, Textbook Orders, Box 311.
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Burroughs, Our Music, undated, Box 312.
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Myrtilla Miner was a white educator who founded the Normal School for Colored Girls in Washington DC.
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Burroughs, Appreciation Day Programs, Box 312.
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Burroughs, History Tests, 1920–1921, Box 311.
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Jonathan Zimmerman. Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
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Ibid.
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Located within the digital collection of the Library of Congress, there is a classroom picture with a sign stating, “This room is for the study of Negro history.” This photograph provided corroborating evidence that there was indeed Negro history being taught in this class: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/coll/item/2004667312/.
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Burroughs, History Tests, 1921–1922, Box 311.
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Burroughs, History Tests, Junior Normal Class, 1920–1921, Box 311.
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Burroughs, Etta Head Lesson Plans, December 1,3,5 1941, Box 311; Burroughs, E.J. Bonds Lesson Plans, undated, Box 311.
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Zimmerman, Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools, 64–65.
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Burroughs, E.J. Bonds Lesson Plans, undated, Box 311.
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Burroughs, Teachers Reports, Fall of 1949-Spring 1950, Box 311.
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John L. Rury, Education and Social Change: Themes in the History of American Schooling (Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002), 142–147.
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Burroughs, E.J. Bonds Lesson Plans, undated, Box 311.
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Burroughs, Negro Project, undated, Box 166.
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Murray, A.D. (2018). Moving Beyond Biography: Critical Race Theory and the Construction of the Alternative Black Curriculum in Social Studies. In: The Development of the Alternative Black Curriculum, 1890-1940. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91418-3_2
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