The national PTA, race, and civic engagement, 1897-1970
By: Christine Woyshner.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780814207550
Subjects: National PTA (U.S.) -- History; National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers -- History; Education -- Parent participation -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction the National PTA, race, and civic engagement; title: "No hats to be worn" : organizing the National Congress of Mothers; title: "To work more effectively and gain better leadership experience" : the founding of the National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers; title: "For convenience of a better education and training for my people" : organizational growth and stability; title: Making America "strong from within" : school lunches, civics, and intergroup relations; title: Diminishing as it advanced : the unification of the PTA; title: Epilogue : civil society and public education.