Horace Mann Bond was an early twentieth century scholar and a college administrator who focused on higher education for African Americans. His "Negro Education in Alabama "won Brown University s Susan Colver Rosenberger Book Prize in 1937 and was praised as a landmark by W. E. B. Dubois in "American Historical Review" and by scholars in journals such as "Journal of Negro Education" and the "Journal of Southern History. " A seminal and wide-ranging work that encompasses not only education per se but a keen analysis of the African American experience of Reconstruction and the following...
Horace Mann Bond was an early twentieth century scholar and a college administrator who focused on higher education for African Americans. His "Neg...
"The Star Creek Papers" is the never-before-published account of the complex realities of race relations in the rural South in the 1930s.
When Horace and Julia Bond moved to Louisiana in 1934, they entered a world where the legacy of slavery was miscegenation, lingering paternalism, and deadly racism. The Bonds were a young, well-educated and idealistic African American couple working for the Rosenwald Fund, a trust established by a northern philanthropist to build schools in rural areas. They were part of the "Explorer Project" sent to investigate the progress of the school in the Star...
"The Star Creek Papers" is the never-before-published account of the complex realities of race relations in the rural South in the 1930s.
