Racial Inequality and the Social Reconstructionists at Teachers College

Abstract

Abstract:Historians of education have probed into the involvement of Social Reconstructionists’ with issues of racial justice and have argued explicitly that Social Reconstructionists, while “interested” in racial problems during the Depression, actually did little to carefully study the role of race or race relations in America. The authors found that many of them were engaged in efforts to address problems of race through education—the education of their own students, of those in other teacher preparation programs, of in-service teachers, and of students in K-12 schools. In addition, Teachers College graduates took on leadership roles at various levels in Black education, extending social reconstructionism to colleges and school districts from Harlem to the South.