| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.2

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Dangerous Donations: Northern Philanthropy and Southern Black Education, 1902–1930. By Eric Anderson and Alfred A. Moss Jr. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. xiii, 245 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8262-1226-3.)

"An educational trust [the General Education Board] has been formed, and is operating to control institutions of higher learning in the United States, and to dominate especially the colleges and universities in the South." Methodist bishop Warren A. Candler sounded that alarm in 1909 in Dangerous Donations and Degrading Doles, and Eric Anderson and Alfred A. Moss Jr. highlight the pamphlet and its sentiments in their monograph on northern philanthropy and southern black education from 1902 to 1930. The authors present biographical portraits of Robert Ogden, William H. Baldwin, George Foster Peabody, and other white philanthropists active in southern black education and describe in detail the history of the American Church Institute for Negroes (ACIN), founded by leaders of the Episcopal Church in 1906 to oversee and raise funds for southern black Episcopal schools. The authors used correspondence, reports, and other foundation records to document their argument that southern white leaders were successful in influencing, and in some instances controlling, the flow of donations by northern philanthropists to southern black and white schools. . . .

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