LEADER 03132nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910784678603321 005 20230617002907.0 010 $a1-281-36498-3 010 $a9786611364984 010 $a1-4039-8140-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-1-4039-8140-0 035 $a(CKB)1000000000362168 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000144176 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11163439 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000144176 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10145908 035 $a(PQKB)11511966 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC307758 035 $a(DE-He213)978-1-4039-8140-0 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL307758 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10135610 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL136498 035 $a(OCoLC)560466810 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000362168 100 $a20050401d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEducation as my agenda$b[electronic resource] $eGertrude Williams, race, and the Baltimore Public Schools /$fGertrude S. Williams with Jo Ann Ooiman Robinson 205 $a1st ed. 2005. 210 $aNew York, N.Y. $cPalgrave Macmillan$d2005 215 $axii, 311 p. $cill 225 1 $aPalgrave studies in oral history 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-312-29543-X 311 $a0-312-29542-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [227]-290) and index. 330 $aWhen Gertrude Williams retired in 1998, after forty-nine years in the Baltimore public schools,The Baltimore Sun called her "the most powerful of principals" who "tangled with two superintendents and beat them both." In this oral memoir, Williams identifies the essential elements of sound education and describes the battles she waged to secure those elements, first as teacher, then a counselor, and, for twenty-five years, as principal. She also described her own education - growing up black in largely white Germantown, Pennsylvania; studying black history and culture for the first time at Cheyney State Teachers College; and meeting the rigorous demands of the program which she graduated from in 1949. In retracing her career, Williams examines the highs and lows of urban public education since World War II. She is at once an outspoken critic and spirited advocate of the system to which she devoted her life. 410 0$aPalgrave studies in oral history. 606 $aAfrican American school principals$vBiography 606 $aPublic schools$zMaryland$zBaltimore$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aSchool principals$zUnited States$vBiography 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century$vSources 615 0$aAfrican American school principals 615 0$aPublic schools$xHistory 615 0$aSchool principals 676 $a371/.01/09752/6 700 $aWilliams$b Gertrude S.$f1927-$01561115 701 $aRobinson$b Jo Ann$f1942-$01561116 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784678603321 996 $aEducation as my agenda$93827585 997 $aUNINA