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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778169703321

Autore

Fairclough Adam

Titolo

A class of their own [[electronic resource] ] : Black teachers in the segregated South / / Adam Fairclough

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-674-03666-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (547 p.)

Disciplina

371.10089/96073

Soggetti

African American teachers - Southern States - History

African Americans - Education - Southern States - History

Segregation in education - United States

African American educators - Southern States - History

Southern States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-499) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The odyssey of black teachers -- Freedom's first generation -- Black teachers for black children -- Missionaries to the dark South -- White supremacy and black teachers -- The founders -- The faith of women -- The city and the country -- Teachers organize -- Black teachers and the civil rights movement -- Integration: loss and profit.

Sommario/riassunto

In this major undertaking, civil rights historian Adam Fairclough chronicles the odyssey of black teachers in the South from emancipation in 1865 to integration one hundred years later. A Class of Their Own is indispensable for understanding how blacks and whites interacted after the abolition of slavery, and how black communities coped with the challenges of freedom and oppression.