AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITIES AND ADULT EDUCATION

What is the impact of African-American, communities on Adult Education?



What is the impact of African-American, communities on Adult Education?

Introduction

Importance given to education in the African-American community is finally reaping the rewards of higher education. Over the past three decades, African-Americans have made significant progress in higher education (Joyce Kamhi Pollock 2001). The development of African-American men and women in higher education has outpaced that of white men and women over the past three decades.

Discussion

Firstly, this success did not happen by magic or some extraterrestrial intervention. Benefits can be attributed to largely to African-American community and its grassroots efforts. Black people have always understood, and stressed the importance of education. Even when it was illegal to teach them the basics of reading and writing into slavery, or when they should have to walk miles to attend the second class schools during segregation, the record shows that black people have used every opportunity, even in a society that mandated compulsory ignorance of the law and practice. Education was no way out and up!

Great African-American scholars emerged, despite the barriers and became a role model and symbol of hope (Vincent Franklin2004). Edward Bouchet was one of the first {} African Americans to receive a doctorate in physics from Yale University in 1876, just 15 years after the first Ph.D. was awarded at Yale University in 1861. W.E.B. Dubois received a Ph.D. in annals from Harvard University in 1895, after studying at the University of Berlin. George Washington Carver received a bachelor's and master's degree in agriculture from Iowa State in 1896. Ernest E. Just, a zoologist and psychologist received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1916. Sadie Alexander from the University of Pennsylvania became the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D., and the ...