03164nam 2200673Ia 450 991045773690332120200520144314.01-281-36498-397866113649841-4039-8140-X10.1007/978-1-4039-8140-0(CKB)1000000000362168(SSID)ssj0000144176(PQKBManifestationID)11163439(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000144176(PQKBWorkID)10145908(PQKB)11511966(MiAaPQ)EBC307758(DE-He213)978-1-4039-8140-0(Au-PeEL)EBL307758(CaPaEBR)ebr10135610(CaONFJC)MIL136498(OCoLC)560466810(EXLCZ)99100000000036216820050401d2005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrEducation as my agenda[electronic resource] Gertrude Williams, race, and the Baltimore Public Schools /Gertrude S. Williams with Jo Ann Ooiman Robinson1st ed. 2005.New York, N.Y. Palgrave Macmillan2005xii, 311 p. illPalgrave studies in oral historyBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-312-29543-X 0-312-29542-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-290) and index.When Gertrude Williams retired in 1998, after forty-nine years in the Baltimore public schools,The Baltimore Sun called her "the most powerful of principals" who "tangled with two superintendents and beat them both." In this oral memoir, Williams identifies the essential elements of sound education and describes the battles she waged to secure those elements, first as teacher, then a counselor, and, for twenty-five years, as principal. She also described her own education - growing up black in largely white Germantown, Pennsylvania; studying black history and culture for the first time at Cheyney State Teachers College; and meeting the rigorous demands of the program which she graduated from in 1949. In retracing her career, Williams examines the highs and lows of urban public education since World War II. She is at once an outspoken critic and spirited advocate of the system to which she devoted her life.Palgrave studies in oral history.African American school principalsBiographyPublic schoolsMarylandBaltimoreHistory20th centurySchool principalsUnited StatesBiographyUnited StatesRace relationsHistory20th centurySourcesElectronic books.African American school principalsPublic schoolsHistorySchool principals371/.01/09752/6Williams Gertrude S.1927-919111Robinson Jo Ann1942-919112MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457736903321Education as my agenda2061501UNINA