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Hello professor : a black principal and professional leadership in the segregated south / Vanessa Siddle Walker with Ulysses Byas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walker, Vanessa Siddle.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American school principals--Georgia--Gainesville--Biography.
- African American school principals.
- Public schools--Georgia--Gainesville.
- Public schools.
- African American students--Georgia--Gainesville--Social conditions.
- African American students.
- Segregation in education--Georgia--Gainesville.
- Segregation in education.
- Racism in education--Georgia--Gainesville.
- Racism in education.
- Discrimination in education--Georgia--Gainesville.
- Discrimination in education.
- Gainesville (Ga.)--Race relations.
- Gainesville (Ga.).
- Gainesville (Ga.)--Social conditions.
- Gainesville (Ga.)--History--20th century.
- Byas, Ulysses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (310 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Like many black school principals, Ulysses Byas, who served the Gainesville, Georgia, school system in the 1950's and 1960's, was reverently addressed by community members as ""Professor."" He kept copious notes and records throughout his career, documenting efforts to improve the education of blacks. Through conversations with Byas and access to his extensive archives on his principalship, Vanessa Siddle Walker finds that black principals were well positioned in the community to serve as conduits of ideas, knowledge, and tools to support black resistance to officially sanctioned regressive education
- Contents:
- Playing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- From high school dropout to classroom teacher
- In spite of this old devil segregation
- In Georgia, where I am free to express myself
- Whatever is in the best interests of kids
- Not without partnering with the community.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-279) and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-9313-350-9
- 979-88-908837-5-9
- 1-4696-0556-2
- 0-8078-8875-3
- 0-8078-8876-1
- OCLC:
- 460740059
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