Hampel, Robert L.2023-08-112023-08-112023-02-16Robert L. Hampel (2023) What Might Have Been: A First-Rate Black Correspondence School, 1927-1930, American Journal of Distance Education, 37:2, 151-156, DOI: 10.1080/08923647.2023.21802631538-9286https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/33065This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in American Journal of Distance Education on 02/16/2023, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/08923647.2023.2180263. © 2023 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This article will be embargoed until 08/16/2024.Nine distinguished Black scholars created an academically rigorous correspondence school in 1927. It lasted only three years. This article explores the reasons why the school failed.en-UScorrespondence schoolshome studyCarter G. WoodsonAssociation for the Study of Negro Life and HistoryArticle