A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (793 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1442211385 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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She served alternately as director of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center and director of the Black Film Center/ Archive. Her publications on black women educators include several journal articles, book chapters, and the coedited book, Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World.. Audrey Thomas McCluskey is professor emerita in the Depart
"Black Women Educators Defying the Odds" according to Louisa. The author does a v good job of introducing (to some of us) these extraordinary women! While the book is a work of scholarship, it is free of academic- speak,and it appeals to a general audience readers. These black women were responsible for educating a race of people against astounding odds.They had to be strategic , while not backing down from the cruel forces of Jim Crow. I plan to gift it to my friends who like learning new, interesting things.
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. 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. 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. Drawing from the women’s own letters and
The graduates detail their experiences—how they came to study there, how the school commemorated Brown, and what the daily regimen was like. (CHOICE)This well-researched and well-written book on the history of four important Black women school founders in the staunchly segregated South fills a void in the literature on Black education in the South and on Black women educators. Excellent individual biographies and articles have been written on some of these women, but pulling their stories together helps highlight their uncommon collective power in this era. Of special interest are the interviews with several surviving graduates of Palmer Memorial Institute, which was founded by Charlotte Hawkins Brown in 1902 and closed in 1971. Confr