Black Scholar: Horace Mann Bond, 1904-1972 - Paperback

by Wayne J. Urban (Author)

In Black Scholar, Wayne J. Urban chronicles the distinguished life and career of the historian, teacher, and university administrator Horace Mann Bond. Urban illuminates not only the man and his accomplishments but also the many issues that confronted him and his colleagues in black education during the middle decades of the twentieth century. After covering the major events of Bond's youth, Urban follows him from his student years at Lincoln University and the University of Chicago through his work for the Julius Rosenwald Fund to his subsequent administrative leadership at several black institutions, including Fort Valley State College, Lincoln University, and Atlanta University.

Author Biography

WAYNE J. URBAN is Associate Director of the Education Policy Center and Professor of Education at the University of Alabama. His other books include Accountability in American Education; Why Teachers Organized; Gender, Race and the National Education Association: Professionalism and Its Limitations; and American Education: A History.