The extra-curricular activities of black college students, 1868-1940.

From: The Journal of African American History | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Scholars of Afro-American higher education have devoted little attention to the extra-curricular life of its students. Dwight Oliver Wendell Holmes could not find any room in his pioneering monograph The Evolution of the Negro College for a single reference to this area of black collegiate life. Ambrose Caliver allotted a mere thirteen of the one hundred and forty-six pages of A Personnel Study of Negro College Students to black undergraduates' extra-curricular interests; his subsequent A Background Study of Negro College Students devoted more space to this subject, but was ...

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