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Audrey Thomas McCluskey - A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South - 9781442211384 - V9781442211384
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A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South

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Description for A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages, 17 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSJ1; JNB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 438.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9781442211384
SKU
V9781442211384
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About Audrey Thomas McCluskey
Audrey Thomas McCluskey is professor emerita in the Department of African-American & African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University. 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. ... Read more

Reviews for A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South
"In this chronicle of a 'sisterhood of purposeful women,' McCluskey, a professor at Indiana University, examines the lives of . . . four African American activist women who gained notoriety for their dedication to educating African American youth and their mission to sustain schools among the harsh conditions of the Jim Crow era. Confronted with issues of class, race, and ... Read more

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