The Marion Thompson Wright Reader

MARION THOMPSON WRIGHT (1902-1962) was a professor of education at Howard University. She wrote The Education of Negroes in New Jersey (Teachers College Press, 1941). GRAHAM RUSSELL GAO HODGES is the George Dorland Langdon, Jr. Professor of History and Africana and Latin American studies at Colgate University. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1660-1870; Root & Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863; and Black New Jersey (Rutgers University Press).

Contents

Epigram

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

 

Introduction

The Education of Negroes in New Jersey

Articles:

Text of “New Jersey Laws and the Negro” The Journal of Negro History, 28: 2 (April 1943), 156-199

Text of “Negro Suffrage in New Jersey, 1776-1875,” The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 33, No. 2 (April 1948), 168-223.

Text of “Racial Integration in the Public Schools of New Jersey,” The Journal of Negro Education, 23: 3, Next Steps in Racial Desegregation in Education (Summer, 1954).2882-289.


Reviews and Notes

“Are Colonials People?” Color and Democracy by William E. Burghardt Du Bois, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Winter, 1946), pp. 63-65

“It Can Happen Anywhere” If He Hollers, Let Him Go by Chester B. Himes, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Spring, 1946) pp. 213-214.

“Notes from Recent Books,” The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 13, No. 4 (Autumn, 1944), pp. 532-535

“Notes from Recent Books,” The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Spring, 1949), pp. 155-159

Encyclopedia Entry

“Lucy Diggs Slowe” in Edward T. James, et. Al. Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, 3 vols. Cambridge: Belknap of Harvard University Press, 1971, 3: 299-300


Marion Thompson Wright Chronological Bibliography

Index