RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Caswell County Training School, 1933–1969: Relationships between Community and School
JF Harvard Educational Review
JO herp
FD Harvard Educational Press
SP 161
OP 183
DO 10.17763/haer.63.2.ejr4135v5t426533
VO 63
IS 2
A1 Siddle Walker, Emilie
YR 1993
UL http://harvardeducationalreview.org/content/63/2/161.abstract
AB The history of education has many references that depict the inequities African-American children experienced during the pre-integration era, but few studies that describe the positive interactions in segregated school environments. In this article, Emilie Vanessa Siddle Walker discusses the case of Caswell County Training School of North Carolina. In this study, ethnographically approached, the author explores the relationships between school and community as they existed in a segregated Black school in the South that was defined by its community as a "good" school. Specifically, Siddle Walker considers: 1)the ways in which the community supported the school; 2) the ways in which the school supported the community; and 3) the implications of these relationships both in their historical context and in informing the current school reform debates.