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Women’s Higher Education in the United StatesThe Black Female Professoriate at Howard University: 1926–1977

Women’s Higher Education in the United States: The Black Female Professoriate at Howard... [This chapter discusses the early Black women faculty at Howard University in Washington, D.C. over a fifty-year period, when Mordecai W. Johnson became the first Black president in 1926, until the late 1970s when the early Black female faculty began to retire. This study highlights the profound difference in hiring practices of the historically Black colleges compared with traditional white colleges, and sheds light on the experiences of Black women faculty at one of the most prestigious and elite Black institutions of higher education in the nation. It also illuminates the collective action of tenured senior Black women faculty who advocated for gender equity and provides insight into how women faculty navigated their years working with President Johnson. This chapter also discusses how critical Howard was as the hub for activism on behalf of Black women in higher education. In addition to the actions of these women faculty, this chapter discusses the efforts of Lucy Diggs Slowe, the first Woman Dean at Howard on behalf of Black women students at Howard and nationally. Slowe’s appointment preceded but overlapped with President Mordecai Johnson.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Women’s Higher Education in the United StatesThe Black Female Professoriate at Howard University: 1926–1977

Part of the Historical Studies in Education Book Series
Editors: Nash, Margaret A.
Perkins, Linda M.
Women’s Higher Education in the United States — Jul 29, 2017
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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
ISBN
978-1-137-59083-1
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117 –137
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-59084-8_6
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[This chapter discusses the early Black women faculty at Howard University in Washington, D.C. over a fifty-year period, when Mordecai W. Johnson became the first Black president in 1926, until the late 1970s when the early Black female faculty began to retire. This study highlights the profound difference in hiring practices of the historically Black colleges compared with traditional white colleges, and sheds light on the experiences of Black women faculty at one of the most prestigious and elite Black institutions of higher education in the nation. It also illuminates the collective action of tenured senior Black women faculty who advocated for gender equity and provides insight into how women faculty navigated their years working with President Johnson. This chapter also discusses how critical Howard was as the hub for activism on behalf of Black women in higher education. In addition to the actions of these women faculty, this chapter discusses the efforts of Lucy Diggs Slowe, the first Woman Dean at Howard on behalf of Black women students at Howard and nationally. Slowe’s appointment preceded but overlapped with President Mordecai Johnson.]

Published: Jul 29, 2017

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