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

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 sl...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2007
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Table of 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