Black Women at Oberlin College Survey Project collection, 1982-2001.

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Black Women at Oberlin College Survey Project collection, 1982-2001.

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The Black Women at Oberlin College Survey Project collection consists of fifty-three questionnaires. The information gathered in the questionnaires ranges from issues about college life to race, gender, and personal and professional backgrounds, including participation in community activities. There is data concerning the campus lives of these women, especially the relationship between blacks and whites and other minority groups, the unity of black students, black student organizations, the concerns of black students on campus, affirmative action, and the general feelings about being black women in a predominately white college, spanning six decades. In addition to the questionnaires for Boston's project, there is a photocopy of a questionnaire completed by Anna Julia Cooper, an educator and 1884 Oberlin graduate, on which Boston's questionnaire was based. The Cooper manuscript collection at the Moorland Spingarn Research Center at Howard University contains her questionnaire from a survey with which the sociologist Charles S. Johnson was involved, entitled "Negro College Graduates." An article by Boston, "A Matter of Race and Sex: Black Women at Oberlin College" summarizing her research results is also included in the collection (1983).

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Oberlin College

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Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. Founded in 1833, it is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second-oldest continuously operating coeducational institute of higher learning in the world. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the United States. In 1835, Oberlin became one of the first colleges in the United States to admit African Americans, and in 18...

Cooper, Anna J. (Anna Julia), 1858-1964

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Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (August 10, 1858 – February 27, 1964) was an American author, educator, sociologist, speaker, Black Liberation activist, and one of the most prominent African-American scholars in United States history. Born into slavery in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1858, Cooper followed the path of many African Americans as she grasped hold of opportunities for an education through the Freedmen’s Bureau after emancipation. Cooper worked her way through St. Augustine’s Normal School...

Black Women at Oberlin College Survey Project

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The Black Women at Oberlin College Survey Project was created by Oberlin College alumna Michon Boston in 1982 to collect and document the college experiences of living black graduates. The study was done following the College's sesquicentennial celebration. Oberlin admitted women in 1835 and was the first American college to admit blacks, also in the nineteenth century. The women included in this survey were graduated between 1923 and 1979. From the description of Black Women at Ober...