Heads verses Hands - Harpers Ferry, WV
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N 39° 19.410 W 077° 44.502
18S E 263658 N 4356260
One of many historical markers in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
Waymark Code: WM14HKT
Location: West Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 07/11/2021
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The plaque says, "We want our children trained as intelligent human beings should be and we will fight for all time against any proposal to educate black boys and girls simply as servants and underlings, or simply for the use of other people. They have a right to know, to think, to aspire.
W.E.B. Du Bois
1906 Address to the Nation delivered on the Storer College campus
A national controversy regarding the education of African American students played out in the building before you. Throughout its history, Storer College faced great difficulty attracting funding. Most white benefactors favored trade school training for African American students. In order to attract better financial backing, Storer College opened this industrial arts building in 1905. The following year, W.E.B. Du Bois spoke out on this campus against training only the hands and not the minds of African American students.
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Despite the controversy, students continued to earn liberal arts degrees from the school until it closed in 1955.
Students took industrial arts training in carpentry, upholstering, and caning.
Storer College struggled to find funding for liberal arts courses such as this chemistry class."
Civil Right Type: Race (includes U.S. Civil Rights movement)
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