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

Informationen zum Autor By Audrey Thomas McCluskey Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The World They Inherited2. "Moving Like a Whirlwind": Lucy Craft Laney, Activist Educator3. "The Best Secondary School in Georgia": Building the Haines Institute Culture4. "Ringing Up a School": Mary McLeod Bethune's Impact on Daytona Beach5. "Show Some Daylight between You": Charlotte Hawkins Brown and the Schooling Experience of Memorial Palmer Institute Graduates, 1948-19586. "Telling Some Mighty Truths": Nannie Helen Burroughs, Activist Educator and Social Critic7. "The Masses and the Classes": Women's Friendships and Support Networks among School Founders8. Passing into History: Commemorations, Memorials, and the Legacies of Black Women School FoundersMilestones and LegaciesBibliographySpecial Collections

Product details

• Authors: Audrey Thomas McCluskey, McCluskey Audrey Thomas
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780810896062
• ISBN: 978-0-8108-9606-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 203 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, 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