Title:
A forgotten sisterhood : pioneering black women educators and activists in the Jim Crow South / Audrey Thomas McCluskey.
Author:
McCluskey, Audrey Thomas, author.
Publication Information:
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2017.
Call Number:
LA2315.S86 M33 2017
Edition:
First paperback edition.
ISBN:
9780810896062
Physical Description:
x, 181 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
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Contents:
The world they inherited -- "Moving like a whirlwind:": Lucy Craft Laney, activist educator -- "The best secondary school in Georgia": building the Haines Institute culture -- "Ringing up a school": Mary McLeod Bethune's impact on Daytona Beach -- "Show some daylight between you": Charlotte Hawkins Brown and the schooling experience of Memorial Palmer Institute graduates, 1948-1958 -- "Telling some mighty truths": nannie Helen Burroughs, activist educator and social critic -- "The masses and the classes": Women's friendships and support networks among school founders -- Passing into history: commemorations, memorials, and the legacies of Black women school founders -- Milestones and legacies.
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