Bibliograph

A forgotten sisterhood, pioneering Black women educators and activists in the Jim Crow South, Audrey Thomas McCluskey

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A forgotten sisterhood, pioneering Black women educators and activists in the Jim Crow South, Audrey Thomas McCluskey

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A forgotten sisterhood

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

883647209

Responsibility statement

Audrey Thomas McCluskey

Sub title

pioneering Black women educators and activists in the Jim Crow South

Table Of Contents

The world they inherited -- "Moving like a whirlwind" : Lucy Craft Laney, activist educator -- "The best secondary school in Georgia" : building the Haines Institute culture -- "Ringing up a school" : Mary McLeod Bethune's impact on Daytona Beach -- "Show some daylight between you" : Charlotte Hawkins Brown and the schooling experience of Memorial Palmer Institute graduates, 1948-1958 -- "Telling some mighty truths" : Nannie Helen Burroughs, activist educator and social critic -- "The masses and the classes" : women's friendships and support networks among school founders -- Passing into history : commemorations, memorials, and the legacies of Black women school founders -- Milestones and legacies

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