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A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South

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Availability:In StockContributor:Audrey Thomas McCluskeyPublish date:2017-11-16Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rlpg/GalleysISBN-13:9780810896062ISBN-10:810896060UPC:9780810896062Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, EducationBook Subcategory:Educators, History, HistoricalSize:8.80 x 5.70 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCJT6PPP6P

A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South

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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Rlpg/GalleysISBN-13:9780810896062ISBN-10:810896060UPC:9780810896062Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, EducationBook Subcategory:Educators, History, HistoricalSize:8.80 x 5.70 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCJT6PPP6P
Audrey Thomas McCluskey is professor emerita in the Department of African-American & African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University. She served alternately as director of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center and director of the Black Film Center/ Archive. Her publications on black women educators include several journal articles, book chapters, and the coedited book, Mary McLeod Bethune:...
Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys

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