Open Access“Educating for Democratic Living”: The City-Wide Citizens’ Committee on Harlem (CWCCH), 1941 – 1947
Author(s) -
Lauri Johnson
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
historia social y de la educación
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2014-3567
DOI - 10.17583/hse.2017.2871
Subject(s) - democracy , public administration , rhetoric , politics , political science , civil rights , community organizing , white (mutation) , sociology , harlem renaissance , african american , law , gene , philosophy , linguistics , biochemistry , chemistry , ethnology
This historical case study focuses on the origins, educational goals, and school reform activities of the City-Wide Citizens’ Committee on Harlem (CWCCH), a political action group in Harlem in the 1940s. An interracial and interfaith civil rights organization with a broad reform agenda, CWCCH used democracy’s rhetoric as a vehicle for social change through an extensive public awareness campaign coupled with savvy organizing, ample organizational resources, and powerful political connections in both the White and African American communities. The article situates school reform work in Harlem during the 1940s in light of a larger citywide civil rights agenda and interracial activism.