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Author McCluskey, Audrey Thomas. Author.

Title A forgotten sisterhood : pioneering Black women educators and activists in the Jim Crow South / Audrey Thomas McCluskey.

Publication Info. Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]

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 Merancas Library - Circulating Collection  LA2315.S86 M33 2014    Available
Description x, 181 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject African American women educators -- Southern States -- Biography.
African American educators -- Southern States -- Biography.
African American women civil rights workers -- Biography.
African Americans -- Education -- Southern States.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History.
Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History.
African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States -- History.
African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions.
Southern States -- Social conditions.
Southern States -- Race relations -- History.
ISBN 9781442211384 (cloth) (alkaline paper)
1442211385 (cloth) (alkaline paper)
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