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McCluskey Audrey Thomas |
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A forgotten sisterhood : pioneering black women educators and activists in the Jim Crow South / / Audrey Thomas McCluskey |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (193 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
Southern States Social conditions |
Southern States Race relations History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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