Education for Liberation by Joe M. Richardson, Maxine D. Jones - 9780817358488

Education for LiberationThe American Missionary Association and African Americans, 1890 to the Civil Rights Movement\nAuthor(s): Joe M. Richardson, Maxine D. Jones\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817358488, 978-0817358488\nSynopsis\nEducation for Liberation completes the study Dr. Richardson published in 1986 as Christian Reconstruction: The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, [tel] by continuing the account of the American Missionary Association (AMA) from the end of Reconstruction to the post-World War II era.\n\nEven after the optimism of Reconstruction was shattered by violence, fraud, and intimidation and the white South relegated African Americans to segregated and disfranchised second-class citizenship, the AMA never abandoned its claim that blacks were equal in God??s sight, that any ??backwardness? was the result of circumstance rather than inherent inferior.