Paired: HBCUs (w/ The Stoop)
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Howarda Lum, I Think You Epitomize Black Excellence.
The idea of training people up to be a particular kind of citizen is at the forefront of all these institutions. And this is thi a moment in 18 54 when a that mission of education is actually, i mean, the language doesn't sound particularly paternalistic. It's coming at a moment when education is forbidden for enslaved people in the south. The laws around free black people were becoming more and more strict. So in the 18 thirties, pennsylvania outlaws black voting a and so it is a kind of rebellion, in some ways, aganisted those ideas a.
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