Encyclopedia of African-American Education. - Review - book review

Adolescence, Spring, 1998

JONES-WILSON, Faustine C., ASBURY, Charles A., OKAZAWA-REY, Margo, ANDERSON, D. Kamili, JACOBS, Sylvia M., & FULTZ, Michael (Eds.). Encyclopedia of African-American Education. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. 584pp. $95.00 (h).

This comprehensive encyclopedia presents the significant issues, policies, historical events, laws, theories, and persons related to the education of African-Americans. Through several hundred alphabetically arranged entries, the volume chronicles the history of African-American education from the systematic, long-term denial of schooling to blacks before the Civil War, to the establishment of the Freedmen's Bureau and the era of Reconstruction, to Brown v. Board of Education and the civil rights reforms of the last few decades. Entries include bibliographies; a selected bibliography of general sources concludes the volume.