Essays on African American Education
This collection contains two handwritten essays by James E. Tubb advocating industrial education, a form of general education and skill-based training proposed in the early 20th century by Booker T. Washington, to provide a foundation for African Americans to gain economic stability.
The first essay, Industrial Education -- Its Effects upon Civil Life, is written on stationary printed with Office of James E. Tubb, Lawyer and Waverly, Tenn., 190_, indicating that Tubb wrote one or both essays in the collection. The essays are circa 1900-1909 based on the essays' subject matter.
Both essays describe three kinds of education -- of the mind, of the heart, and of the hand -- and how they should be taught together for a more effective, well-rounded education. Both focus on industrial education as a means of helping African Americans support themselves, with the second essay mentioning Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute and its students desire for general education and training.
Dates
- undated
Language
The material in this collection is in English.
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Extent
0.1 Linear Feet (1 folder)
Abstract
This collection contains two handwritten essays by James E. Tubb advocating industrial education, a form of general education and skill-based training proposed in the early 20th century by Booker T. Washington, to provide a foundation for African Americans to gain economic stability.
Biographical/Historical Note
No biographical information found on James E. Tubb.
The turn of the 20th century saw diminished educational and economic opportunities for African Americans that began immediately following the American Civil War. Most were unprepared for life beyond slavery and Reconstruction, with poverty, lack of education and limited skills curtailing their employment opportunities. African American children, especially in the segregated Southern United States, were less likely to finish their general education due to societal and economic pressures to work to support their families.
Due to the demand to remedy this issue, training schools opened across the Southern U.S. Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), who became the principal of the Tuskegee Institute in 1881, advocated in his Industrial Education for the Negro (October 1903) that African American children should receive an education that not only improves the mind but also teaches valuable skills that can be used beyond school and in the work force. The Tuskegee Institute taught farming, carpentry, brickmaking and bricklaying, printing, home economics and other subjects in addition to secondary school courses.
Arrangement
This material is in one folder.
Acquisition Note
These materials were donated to Special Collections by Noble Freemon, Jr. in 1959.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository