03010nam 22007214a 450 991096644230332120200520144314.09780674036666067403666210.4159/9780674036666(CKB)1000000000786909(OCoLC)434595724(CaPaEBR)ebrary10313852(SSID)ssj0000122956(PQKBManifestationID)11132433(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000122956(PQKBWorkID)10131595(PQKB)11625219(DE-B1597)457610(OCoLC)1049623802(OCoLC)1054877349(OCoLC)979574798(DE-B1597)9780674036666(Au-PeEL)EBL3300135(CaPaEBR)ebr10313852(OCoLC)923109355(MiAaPQ)EBC3300135(Perlego)1132775(EXLCZ)99100000000078690920060724d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrA class of their own Black teachers in the segregated South /Adam Fairclough1st ed.Cambridge, Mass. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press20071 online resource (547 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780674023079 0674023072 Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-499) and index.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.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.African American teachersSouthern StatesHistoryAfrican AmericansEducationSouthern StatesHistorySegregation in educationUnited StatesAfrican American educatorsSouthern StatesHistorySouthern StatesRace relationsAfrican American teachersHistory.African AmericansEducationHistory.Segregation in educationAfrican American educatorsHistory.371.10089/96073Fairclough Adam1806944MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910966442303321A class of their own4356382UNINA