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A Class of Their Own : Black Teachers in the Segregated South / Adam Fairclough.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674023079
  • 9780674036666
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 371.1008996073
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674036666

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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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