“Educating for Democratic Living”: The City-Wide Citizens’ Committee on Harlem (CWCCH), 1941 – 1947
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| contents | “Educating for Democratic Living”: The City-Wide Citizens’ Committee on Harlem (CWCCH), 1941 – 1947 Lauri Johnson Historia Harlem school reform community activism civic unity committees This historical case study focuses on the origins, educational goals, and school reform activities of the City - Wide Citizens’ Committee on Harlem (CWCCH), a political action group in Harlem in the 1940s. An interracial and interfaith civil rights organization with a broad reform agenda, CWCCH used democracy’s rhetoric as a vehicle for social change through an extensive public awareness campaign coupled with savvy organizing, ample organizational resources, and powerful political connections in both the White and African American communities. The article situates school reform work in Harlem during the 1940s in light of a larger citywide civil rights agenda and interracial activism. 2017 artículo científico 2014-3567 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=317053219002 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3170 Social and Education History application/pdf Hipatia Press Social and Education History (España) Num.3 Vol.6 |
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| spellingShingle | “Educating for Democratic Living”: The City-Wide Citizens’ Committee on Harlem (CWCCH), 1941 – 1947 Lauri Johnson Historia Harlem school reform community activism civic unity committees “Educating for Democratic Living”: The City-Wide Citizens’ Committee on Harlem (CWCCH), 1941 – 1947 Lauri Johnson Historia Harlem school reform community activism civic unity committees This historical case study focuses on the origins, educational goals, and school reform activities of the City - Wide Citizens’ Committee on Harlem (CWCCH), a political action group in Harlem in the 1940s. An interracial and interfaith civil rights organization with a broad reform agenda, CWCCH used democracy’s rhetoric as a vehicle for social change through an extensive public awareness campaign coupled with savvy organizing, ample organizational resources, and powerful political connections in both the White and African American communities. The article situates school reform work in Harlem during the 1940s in light of a larger citywide civil rights agenda and interracial activism. 2017 artículo científico 2014-3567 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=317053219002 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=3170 Social and Education History application/pdf Hipatia Press Social and Education History (España) Num.3 Vol.6 |
| title | “Educating for Democratic Living”: The City-Wide Citizens’ Committee on Harlem (CWCCH), 1941 – 1947 |
| topic | Historia Harlem school reform community activism civic unity committees |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=317053219002 |