Booker T. Washington, a founding father of African American education in the United States, has long been studied, revered, and reviled by scholars and students. Born into slavery, freed and raised in the Reconstruction South, and active in educational reform through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Washington sought to use…

The Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of only four predominantly Black medical schools in the United States. Among its illustrious alumni are surgeons general of the United States, medical school presidents, and numerous other highly regarded medical professionals. This book tells the engrossing history of this venerable…

This handbook presents a compilation of entrance requirements of the liberal arts colleges and universities in the United States, as of the commencement of the fall semester, 1940. Its value should be primarily to guidance authorities of high schools and colleges, and to teachers whose assistance is sought by students preparing for college. The…