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black college rebellions  

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  • During the 1920s, a wave of rebellion engulfed many of the leading African American colleges. The African American collegians of that era were in revolt against a vocational emphasis in the curriculum and against the paternalistic spirit that had characterized an earlier period in African American college education. [Source: Encyclopedia of African American Education; Black College Rebellions of the 1920s]

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