@article{1456877,
      author = {Glenn, Charles Leslie,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1456877},
      title = {African-American/Afro-Canadian schooling: from the  colonial period to the present /},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      abstract = {"An overview of efforts to provide formal schooling to  Black children and youth in North America, from the  Colonial period to the present, both in the South and in  the North and Canada The account includes the damaging  racial assumptions of the White majority, the often-heroic  efforts of Black parents and teachers to provide education,  the contributions of Black churches and White missionary  organizations during Reconstruction and long after, formal  and informal mechanisms of segregation in the North as well  as the South, resistance to desegregation in recent  decades, and new approaches to education that reduce the  racial achievement gap"--},
      recid = {1456877},
      pages = {1 online resource (xii, 203 pages ) :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2011},
}