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

• Autore: Fairclough Adam
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (547 p.)
• Disciplina: 371.10089/96073
• Soggetto topico: African American teachers - Southern States - History; African Americans - Education - Southern States - History; Segregation in education - United States; African American educators - Southern States - History
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States Race relations
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: A class of their own
• ISBN: 0-674-03666-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455103903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II