"In A Community of Voices, Ervin and Sheer have selected a variety of personal testimonies, litigation summaries and intellectual perspectives based on themes and practices in African American education. These scholarly critiques can help to serve as guiding beliefs in the field. Resources dating from the 1700s to the early 1970s describe how African Americans faced life threatening situations along with political, social and economic barriers in order to obtain an education. But these critiques also show the ideals that the African American community saw as worthy of preserving and passing on to future generations; things such as dignity, identity, family, freedom, and literacy. A must-read for those looking for a historical overview of how the African American family, the community, the church, and the academy worked to promote and gain access to education in our society.Janet Sims-WoodDistinguished Research Librarian"A Community of Voices is a much-needed text in education history. It centers our attention on an education ethos which historically and philosophically guides Black America (family, teachers, church and community), from the early 1700s to the late 1970s. It centers the perspectives of African American students and their support team which intentionally and consistently remains family, teachers, church, and community. It supplies knowledge and directionslandmarks and milestones, personal testimonies, summations of litigations, intellectual perspectives, and exhaustive bibliographyto education reformers seeking history and memory as theoretical building tools. In this text, readers meet "witnesses" to the humanity of a people who saw education as the pre-condition to survival in America and in global societies. By the last page, we are witnesses, too."McLouis ClaytonPhD, Chair, Advisory Board, HBCU-General Education Alliance, Inc.
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