著者

権 瞳

出版者

プール学院大学

雑誌

プール学院大学研究紀要 (ISSN:13426028)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.41, pp.109-123, 2001-12-31

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The purpose of this paper is to discuss the efforts of African-American female educators in the Jim Crow America, focusing on the work of Mary McLeod Bethune. Bethune, as many others at that period, valued education as the key for racial uplift and equality. She founded the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls, now called the Bethune-Cookman College, which emphasized the "industrial" aspects, self-support, and community service that were also common in many other African-American institutions in the South at that time. Her educational labors, however, were not limited to a school building, but extended to active involvement in local church activities, the African-American women's club movement, and many presidential administrations especially in the Roosevelt era. In this sense, Bethune may be seen as a progressive educator who strongly engaged in the affairs of her community in order to build a better world, and transmit the attitude of hope and struggle to the next generations. Such practice and thoughts of African-American educators are valuable in our efforts to re-examine both central and marginal discourses in order to go beyond and fully comprehend the mentally segregated society of the present day.