Pro-Education Campaign and the Pelotense Black Front:
the struggle for literacy and instruction in the pages of the newspaper A Alvorada, Pelotas/RS (1933-1936)
Abstract
The present research investigates the Pro-Education Campaign published in the local black press journal A Alvorada in the period 1933-1936. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the right to education through the struggle undertaken by black associations in the city of Pelotas in the face of a policy of social and racial exclusion of the afrodescendant population in schools. It was possible to verify that the campaign was devised by black journalists and the Pelotas Black Front in order to create schools and financially assist parents who were unable to enroll their children in schools in Pelotas.