Lunch & Learn: 19th Century Education for Girls of Color in Baltimore
Bring your lunch to this free lecture and learn how education for black girls was necessary for social advancement in southern society. Literacy was recognized in the post-Civil War period as a means of subverting the white institutional belief that black girls had no right to access notions of domestic femininity and womanhood that governed white women during the 19th century. Through education, women defined themselves and their relationship to their family, community, and the larger civil society.