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Author:

McCluskey, Audrey Thomas, author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Rowman & Littlefield,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

x, 181 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Subject:

African American women educators--Southern States--Biography.
African American educators--Southern States--Biography.
African American women civil rights workers--Biography.
African Americans--Education--Southern States.
African Americans--History.--Southern States--History.
Civil rights movements--Southern States--History.
African Americans--History.--Southern States--History.
African Americans--Southern States--Social conditions.
Southern States--Social conditions.
Southern States--History.--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The world they inherited -- "Moving like a whirlwind" : Lucy Craft Laney, activist educator -- "The best secondary school in Georgia" : building the Haines Institute culture -- "Ringing up a school" : Mary McLeod Bethune's impact on Daytona Beach -- "Show some daylight between you" : Charlotte Hawkins Brown and the schooling experience of Memorial Palmer Institute graduates, 1948-1958 -- "Telling some mighty truths" : Nannie Helen Burroughs, activist educator and social critic -- "The masses and the classes" : women's friendships and support networks among school founders -- Passing into history : commemorations, memorials, and the legacies of Black women school founders -- Milestones and legacies.

ISBN:

1442211385
9781442211384

OCLC:

(OCoLC)883647209

LCCN:

2014025293

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)