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A Forgotten Sisterhood
Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South
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2014
Summary
Emerging from the darkness of the slave era and Reconstruction, black activist women Lucy Craft Laney, Mary McLeod Bethune, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, and Nannie Helen Burroughs founded schools aimed at liberating African-American youth from disadvantaged futures in the segregated and decidedly unequal South. From the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, these individuals fought discrimination as members of a larger movement of black women who uplifted future generations through a focus on education, social service, and cultural transformation. Born free, but with the shadow of the slave past still implanted in their consciousness, Laney, Bethune, Brown, and Burroughs built off each other’s successes and learned from each other’s struggles as administrators, lecturers, and suffragists. Drawing from the women’s own letters and writings about educational methods and from remembrances of surviving students, Audrey Thomas McCluskey reveals the pivotal significance of this sisterhood’s legacy for later generations and for the institution of education itself.
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Copyright Year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-1138-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-1140-7
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
181
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgments No access
Chapter One: The World They Inherited No access Pages 1 - 14
Chapter Two: “Moving Like a Whirlwind” No access Pages 15 - 36
Chapter Three: “The Best Secondary School in Georgia” No access Pages 37 - 54
Chapter Four: “Ringing Up a School” No access Pages 55 - 72
Chapter Five: “Show Some Daylight Between You” No access Pages 73 - 100
Chapter Six: “Telling Some Mighty Truths” No access Pages 101 - 116
Chapter Seven: “The Masses and the Classes” No access Pages 117 - 140
Chapter Eight: Passing into History No access Pages 141 - 158
