A forgotten sisterhood
Subtitle: pioneering Black women educators and activists in the Jim Crow South
By: Audrey Thomas McCluskey
Publisher: Rowman & Lttlefield
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781442211384
Subjects: African American women civil rights workers; Race relations; African American educators; African American women educators; Civil rights movements; Segregation; Social conditions; Education; African Americans; Civil rights; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The world they inherited; title: "Moving like a whirlwind" : Lucy Craft Laney, activist educator; title: "The best secondary school in Georgia" : building the Haines Institute culture; title: "Ringing up a school" : Mary McLeod Bethune's impact on Daytona Beach; title: "Show some daylight between you" : Charlotte Hawkins Brown and the schooling experience of Memorial Palmer Institute graduates, 1948-1958; title: "Telling some mighty truths" : Nannie Helen Burroughs, activist educator and social critic; title: "The masses and the classes" : women's friendships and support networks among school founders; title: Passing into history : commemorations, memorials, and the legacies of Black women school founders; title: Milestones and legacies.