Audrey Thomas McCluskey

A Forgotten Sisterhood

Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South

• Gebundenes 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: 1. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 263mm x 128mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9781442211384
• ISBN-10: 1442211385
• Artikelnr.: 41123095

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