TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fairclough,Adam
TI  - A Class of Their Own: Black Teachers in the Segregated South 
SN  - 9780674023079
U1  - 371.1008996073 
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - African American educators
KW  - Southern States
KW  - History
KW  - African American teachers
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Education
KW  - Segregation in education
KW  - United States
KW  - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Prologue. The Odyssey of Black Teachers --; One. Freedom's First Generation --; Two. Black Teachers for Black Children --; Three. Missionaries to the Dark South --; Four. White Supremacy and Black Teachers --; Five. The Founders --; Six. The Faith of Women --; Seven. The City and the Country --; Eight. Teachers Organize --; Nine. Black Teachers and the Civil Rights Movement --; Ten. Integration: Loss and Profit --; Notes. Acknowledgments. Index --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
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