Politics, Disability, and Education Reform in the South [electronic resource] : The Work of John Eldred Swearingen /
Janak, E.author.
Politics, Disability, and Education Reform in the South explores how race, gender, disability, and politics all came together to impact the career of one State Superintendent of Education in South Carolina who fought to improve educational conditions for African-Americans, women, and millworkers' children in South Carolina.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Politics, Disability, and Education Reform in the South explores how race, gender, disability, and politics all came together to impact the career of one State Superintendent of Education in South Carolina who fought to improve educational conditions for African-Americans, women, and millworkers' children in South Carolina.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction 1. South Carolina, Populism and the 'New South', 1865-1906 2. Fighting the Good Fight, 1907-1915 3. Political Triptych: Swearingen, Blease and Tillman, 1911-1915 4. Swept Up in Progressivism, 1915-1919 5. Robert Cooper and the Final Battle, 1919-1957 6. Conlcusion.
Swearingen, John Eldred, 1875-1957.
School management and organization.
School administration.
Educational policy.
Education and state.
Learning.
Instruction.
Education—History.
Sociology.
Administration, Organization and Leadership.
Educational Policy and Politics.
Education Policy.
Learning & Instruction.
History of Education.
Sociology, general.