*** BLACK WOMEN IN THE IVORY TOWER, 1850-1954: AN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY by Stephanie Y. Evans, Ph.D. To Order: UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA BOOK INTRO PAGE http://www.professorevans.com/BWIT.htm Intro Content: Stephanie Y. Evans Intro Design:  Brother Joseph Akoni  of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated Intro Music: Jill Scott

Introduction:  

 "This Right to Grow": Higher Education as both a Human and Civil Right

Part One            Educational Attainment

1. "A Plea for the Oppressed": Educational Strivings, Pre-1865

2. "The Crown of Culture": Educational Attainment, 1865-1910

3. "Beating Onward, Ever Onward": A Critical Mass, 1910-54

4. "Reminiscences of School Life": Six College Memoirs

5. "I Make Myself Heard": Comparative Collegiate Experiences  (HBCUs and PWIs)

6. "The Third Step": Doctoral Degrees

Part Two            Intellectual Legacy

7. Research: "The Yardstick of Great Thinkers"

8. Teaching: "That Which Relieves Their Hunger"

9. Service: "A Beneficent Force"

10. Living Legacies--Black Women in Higher Education, Post-1954

"We desperately need a leadership of inclusiveness. May I say that this is possible in proportion as we are able to put our love of humanity above the love of self. Responsible leadership must be characterized by love. . . . We need desperately a leadership of intellectual integrity. We have to say this over and over again—for we are prone to want the world at too cheap a price, and nothing really worthy is ever achieved except by hard, intellectual effort, and the development of the power of straight thinking." --Dr. Willa Player, 1959

Dr. Willa Player