Audrey Thomas McCluskey

A Forgotten Sisterhood

Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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, and Charlotte Hawkins Brown. The four women founded schools for African-American children, as well as being activists, lecturers, and suffragists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 287g
• ISBN-13: 9780810896062
• ISBN-10: 0810896060
• Artikelnr.: 49445087

Autorenporträt

By Audrey Thomas McCluskey

Inhaltsangabe

1. The World They Inherited 2. "Moving Like a Whirlwind": Lucy Craft Laney,
Activist Educator 3. "The Best Secondary School in Georgia": Building the
Haines Institute Culture 4. "Ringing Up a School": Mary McLeod Bethune's
Impact on Daytona Beach 5. "Show Some Daylight between You": Charlotte
Hawkins Brown and the Schooling Experience of Memorial Palmer Institute
Graduates, 1948-1958 6. "Telling Some Mighty Truths": Nannie Helen
Burroughs, Activist Educator and Social Critic 7. "The Masses and the
Classes": Women's Friendships and Support Networks among School Founders 8.
Passing into History: Commemorations, Memorials, and the Legacies of Black
Women School Founders Milestones and Legacies Bibliography Special
Collections