Lesson 6: The Daily Experience of the Laurel Grove School, 1925

Books and Media 

Linda Sargent Wood. “Get an Education and Everything Will Fall in Line”:  The Laurel Grove “Colored” School in Northern Virginia, 1884-1932.  Essay, 2006.

Robert J. Norrell.  Up From History: The Life of Booker T. Washington (Harvard University Press: Cambridge, 2009).  Provides evidence modifying accepted thinking about Washington, particularly about his response to the harsh and often violent Jim Crow system he confronted in the South. 

Websites

The Virginia Historical Society’s online exhibit The Civil Rights Movement in Virginia has a useful section on the Beginnings of Black Education. http://www.vahistorical.org/civilrights/education.htm#16

The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture contains an extensive set of photos from the early 1900s on African American schools including those in Virginia.   http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital

The History Matters website created and maintained by George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media (CHNM) contains a wide range of primary source documents in their Many Pasts section, each with a short context explanation, including Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Compromise Speech of 1895, http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/88 and “Of Mr. Booker T. Washington and Others” published within The Souls of Black Folk  (1903) http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/40