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 well as being activists, lecturers, and suffragists.

List of contents

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

About the author

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: Building a Better World.

Product details

• Authors: Audrey Thomas McCluskey, McCluskey Audrey Thomas
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2014
• EAN: 9781442211384
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-1138-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; USA, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Geschichte der Pädagogik, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, EDUCATION / History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / General, HISTORY / Women, History of Education, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, History of the Americas, Gender studies: women and girls