A forgotten sisterhood : pioneering black women educators and activists in the Jim Crow South / / Audrey Thomas McCluskey

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463293603321
• Autore: McCluskey Audrey Thomas
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-4422-1140-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 p.)
• Disciplina: 370.922
• Soggetti: African American women educators - Southern States; African American educators - Southern States; African American women civil rights workers; African Americans - Education - Southern States; African Americans - Civil rights - Southern States - History; Civil rights movements - Southern States - History; African Americans - Segregation - Southern States - History; African Americans - Southern States - Social conditions; Electronic books.; Southern States Social conditions; Southern States Race relations History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: The World They Inherited; Chapter Two: "Moving Like a Whirlwind"; Chapter Three: "The Best Secondary School in Georgia"; Chapter Four: "Ringing Up a School"; Chapter Five: "Show Some Daylight Between You"; Chapter Six: "Telling Some Mighty Truths"; Chapter Seven: "The Masses and the Classes"; Chapter Eight: Passing into History; Milestones and Legacies; Bibliography; Special Collections; Index; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, Charlotte Hawkins Brown. The four women knew each other through the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. The other four women founded schools for African-American children, as well as being activists, lecturers, and suffragists, and the book includes interviews with students who came from around the country to attend these groundbreaking, historic schools.