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Piney Woods School: An Oral History

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by Alferdteen Harrison
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Availability:In StockContributor:Alferdteen Harrison, Roland FreemanTheme:Chronological Period/20th Century, Cultural Region/South, Ethnic Orientation/African American, Geographic Orientation/Mississippi, Topical/Black HistoryPublish date:3/1/1983Pages:196
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University Press of MississippiISBN-13:9781578068760ISBN-10:1578068762UPC:9781578068760Book Category:History, Social Science, EducationBook Subcategory:United States, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, HistoryBook Topic:State & Local, African American & Black StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 inchesWeight:0.295Product ID:SC3S7GDAK8
This is the story of an extraordinary school in the piney woods of Mississippi and of the enduring people of Piney Woods Community who forged on against incredible odds to make a better world for themselves and their children. To these poor backwoods turn-of-the-century African Americans of Rankin County, Mississippi, Laurence C. Jones (1882-1975) brought the Booker T. Washington model of training African Americans to be good workers.

Because the school followed Jim Crow social codes and mirrored what were then expedient race relations in the South, Piney Woods School thrived without controversy and with encouragement from Mississippi whites. It served a noble purpose by opening its doors for the educational training of underprivileged rural African American students as well as for the visually and physically impaired of the state at a time when there was absolutely no other institution for them.

Piney Woods School: An Oral History is based upon a series of interviews with e

Languages:EnglishPublisher:University Press of MississippiISBN-13:9781578068760ISBN-10:1578068762UPC:9781578068760Book Category:History, Social Science, EducationBook Subcategory:United States, Cultural & Ethnic Studies, HistoryBook Topic:State & Local, African American & Black StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 inchesWeight:0.295Product ID:SC3S7GDAK8
Alferdteen Harrison was a professor of history and director of the Margaret Walker Alexander National Research Center at Jackson State University. She also cofounded the Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural Center, the first museum in Mississippi to focus on African Americans in the state. She is author or editor of multiple books, including Black Exodus: The Great Migration from the American South, published by University Press of Mississippi. She continues as a prominent advocate for the documentation and preservation of African American history.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi

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Alferdteen Harrison, Roland Freeman

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Alferdteen Harrison

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