This volume examines the evolution of higher education opportunities for African Americans in the early and mid-twentieth century

Introduction: Higher Education for African-Americans before the Civil Rights Era, 1900-1964, City Normal Schools and Municipal Colleges in the Upward Expansion of Higher Education for African Americans, Nooses, Sheets, and Blackface: White Racial Anxiety and Black Student Presence at Six Midwest, Flagship Universities, 1882-1937, A Nauseating Sentiment, a Magical Device, or a Real Insight? Interracialism at Fisk University in 1930, "Only Organized Effort Will Find the Way Out!": Faculty Unionization at Howard University, 1918-1950, Competing Visions of Higher Education: The College of Liberal Arts Faculty and the Administration of Howard University, 1939-1960, The First Black Talent Identification Program: The National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, 1947-1968, List of Contributors