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Building Racial Tolerance Through Education: The Fisk University Race Relations Institute, 1944-1969
… his expertise in race relations with the American Missionary Association and the Julius Rosenwald Fund to form the Fisk University Race Relations Institute. Johnson hoped that the Institute would serve as a vehicle to address racially-based issues and promote civil rights. This study shows …
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From Servitude to Freedom: Gender, Labor, and Domestic Relations
… This thesis utilizes Freedmen's Bureau records, American Missionary Association correspondence, census data, and local newspapers to argue that freedwomen sought to gain control over their labor, bodies, relationships, and children in the postbellum era as they were legally free from slavery's …
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Sowing the Seed: Oberlin Female Missionary Teachers of Southern Blacks, 1863-1875
<p>The American Missionary Association (AMA) proved to be the largest and most enduring of the benevolent societies which sponsored teachers in the South. Local affiliates of the society were organized throughout the East and Midwest to raise funds, gather donations, and enlist teachers. Many of …