Marybeth Gasman is a professor of higher education at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work explores philanthropy and historically black colleges, black leadership, contemporary fundraising issues at black colleges, and African-American giving. Roger L. Geiger is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education and former head of the higher education program at the Pennsylvania State University. He is also senior scientist at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education. He has edited the Perspectives on the History of Higher Education series since 1993.

• Introduction: Higher Education for African-Americans before the Civil Rights Era, 1900–1964, City Normal Schools and Municipal Colleges in the Upward Expansion of Higher Education for African Americans, Nooses, Sheets, and Blackface: White Racial Anxiety and Black Student Presence at Six Midwest, Flagship Universities, 1882–1937, A Nauseating Sentiment, a Magical Device, or a Real Insight? Interracialism at Fisk University in 1930, “Only Organized Effort Will Find the Way Out!”: Faculty Unionization at Howard University, 1918–1950, Competing Visions of Higher Education: The College of Liberal Arts Faculty and the Administration of Howard University, 1939–1960, The First Black Talent Identification Program: The National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, 1947–1968, List of Contributors

Marybeth Gasman is a professor of higher education at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work explores philanthropy and historically black colleges, black leadership, contemporary fundraising issues at black colleges, and African-American giving. Roger L. Geiger is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education and former head of the higher education program at the Pennsylvania State University. He is also senior scientist at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education. He has edited the Perspectives on the History of Higher Education series since 1993.

• Introduction: Higher Education for African-Americans before the Civil Rights Era, 1900–1964, City Normal Schools and Municipal Colleges in the Upward Expansion of Higher Education for African Americans, Nooses, Sheets, and Blackface: White Racial Anxiety and Black Student Presence at Six Midwest, Flagship Universities, 1882–1937, A Nauseating Sentiment, a Magical Device, or a Real Insight? Interracialism at Fisk University in 1930, “Only Organized Effort Will Find the Way Out!”: Faculty Unionization at Howard University, 1918–1950, Competing Visions of Higher Education: The College of Liberal Arts Faculty and the Administration of Howard University, 1939–1960, The First Black Talent Identification Program: The National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, 1947–1968, List of Contributors