A forgotten sisterhood : pioneering Black women educators and activists in the Jim Crow South

A forgotten sisterhood : pioneering Black women educators and activists in the Jim Crow South /

In the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century a small group of women overcame personal and professional hardships to gain national prominence as educational reformers and social activists. This book takes a biographical look at Lucy Craft Laney, Mary McLeod Bethune, Nannie Helen Burroughs...

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Main Author: McCluskey, Audrey Thomas (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
Subjects:
Educators > United States > Biography.
African American women educators > Biography.
African American civil rights workers > Biography.
African Americans > Southern States > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History.
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter One: The World They Inherited
  • Chapter Two: "Moving Like a Whirlwind"
  • Chapter Three: "The Best Secondary School in Georgia"
  • Chapter Four: "Ringing Up a School"
  • Chapter Five: "Show Some Daylight Between You"
  • Chapter Six: "Telling Some Mighty Truths"
  • Chapter Seven: "The Masses and the Classes"
  • Chapter Eight: Passing into History
  • Milestones and Legacies
  • Bibliography
  • Special Collections
  • Index
  • About the Author.

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