#Education

10 entries

People (4)

Booker T. Washington

Educator, founder of Tuskegee Institute, and architect of the Atlanta Compromise

Deaf-blind author and activist whose radicalism the 20th century spent decades trying to forget

Cherokee polymath who invented a writing system and made his nation literate in a single generation

Sociologist, co-founder of the NAACP, and theorist of Black identity in America

Places (2)

The U.S. Naval Academy

Annapolis — where the Navy and Marine Corps train their officers

The military academy that trained the officers who led America's wars

Events (1)

Columbine High School Shooting

The 1999 attack that reshaped how America sees school violence

Documents (2)

The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 — the law that built the American middle class

The 1862 land-grant law that democratized higher education and created America's state universities

Concepts (1)

Affirmative Action

The Six-Decade Legal and Political Battle Over Race-Conscious Remediation

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