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The HUArchivesNet is an electronic journal of African American history published by Howard University. One recent issue of HUArchivesNet deals with Black women in academia. Being an academic is not a common role expectation for African American women, and Black women are very small minority of university professors and administrators. In the past, opportunities for Black women to be students were severely restricted as well. Learn something about the history of African American women in academia by visiting www.huarchivesnet.howard.edu/0005huarnet/May.htm.

Click on Moments in Black History, and page through some of the significant events in the history of Black women in academia.
  1. What does this timeline tell you about some of the factors that have kept Black women from reaching their full potential in academics?
  2. The timeline lists a number of "firsts" for Black women receiving various types of educational degrees. Are you surprised at how recent some of these "firsts" are?
Next, link to Gallery (along the left-hand side of the page), and then Howard University Women of Accomplishment. Read through this slide presentation.
  1. As you can see from this presentation, Black women have struggled to make inroads in high-level academic positions, even at historically Black universities like Howard. Why do you think this is so?
  2. Based on this slide presentation, how do you think that opportunities for White women in academia differ from opportunities for Black women? Among the professors who have taught you, how many are White women, and how many are Black women?
Link to Featured Articles (along the left-hand side of the page), and read the first screen of "Teaching Black Women's History and Other Stories."
  1. Rhonda Y. Williams is a Black woman who has been successful in attaining a faculty post at a well-regarded university. Why do you think it is that she is still concerned about the fact that there are so few other Blacks at her university?





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