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A Struggle Worthy of Note
The Engineering and Technological Education of Black Americans
David E. Wharton
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A Struggle Worthy of Note

The Engineering and Technological Education of Black Americans

David E. Wharton David E. Wharton

October 1992

Praeger

Series: Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies: Contemporary Black Poets

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African Americans have faced considerable obstacles in pursuing careers in engineering in the U.S. Wharton provides the first history of black efforts to advance in this field from Emancipation to the present.

Not surprisingly, African Americans have faced considerable obstacles in pursuing careers in engineering in the United States. Wharton has constructed the first history of black efforts to advance in this field from Emancipation to the present. Utilizing contemporary correspondence and documents, Wharton shows the range of responses from educators and politicians on both sides of the controversy and examines in detail institutions and individuals responsible for the racial and educational climate surrounding this issue.

The struggle for the opportunity and acceptance of African-American participants in the technological arena is a struggle worthy of note. The struggle and the examination of this topic is important because, despite the significance of the topic, it has been minimally explored. A pioneering effort, the book will be of concern to all students of American race relations, higher education, and the history of engineering education.
Introduction
Preface
Inventors and Tinkers
The Washington/Du Bois Debate
Educational Opportunity and the Development of Black Institutions
Three Black Engineers
The Era of the Brown Decision and Sputnik
The Sixties
The Seventies
The Eighties
Conclusions and Implications
Appendixes
Bibliography
Index
Reviews
Wharton's short but excellent eye-opener fills a void in the documentation of the struggle waged by African Americans to obtain an equal education in a predominantly white American society.—Choice





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