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Title: Making Global Citizens: Milton Eisenhower, UNESCO, and the Desegregation of Kansas State College, 1943-1950
Language: English
Authors: Brendan G. Lee (ORCID 0009-0003-8381-9782)
Source: History of Education Quarterly. 2025 65(2):196-221.
Availability: Cambridge University Press. 100 Brook Hill Drive, West Nyack, NY 10994. Tel: 800-872-7423; Tel: 845-353-7500; Fax: 845-353-4141; e-mail: subscriptions_newyork@cambridge.org; Web site: https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/journals
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 26
Publication Date: 2025
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Peace, Rural Colleges, Educational Change, Curriculum Development, Citizenship Education, International Organizations, Partnerships in Education, Educational History, Institutional Characteristics, Cultural Awareness, Prevention, War, Democracy, College Presidents, Desegregation Methods
Geographic Terms: Kansas
DOI: 10.1017/heq.2025.12
ISSN: 0018-2680
1748-5959
Abstract: In 1946, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was formed to promote peace through education and cross-cultural understanding. In the postwar atomic age, American leaders saw UNESCO and education for world citizenship as critical to the prevention of future war, the promotion of a new pluralistic vision, and the development of a well-informed society. A hyper-local case study, this article follows the story of Milton S. Eisenhower, leading UNESCO delegate and president of Kansas State College, and the series of progressive reforms he pursued to promote democracy, citizenship, and global peacebuilding at a rural land-grant college in the center of the former "isolationist belt" of America. This article traces the impact of these curricular reforms, the UNESCO campus-community partnership they inspired, and the subsequent peacebuilding movement that agitated for humanitarian action, civic participation, and desegregation from 1947 to 1950.
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