A class of their own : Black teachers in the segregated South / Adam Fairclough.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fairclough, Adam.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American teachers--Southern States--History.

African American teachers.

African Americans--Education--Southern States--History.

African Americans.

Segregation in education--United States.

Segregation in education.

African American educators--Southern States--History.

African American educators.

Southern States--Race relations.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (547 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

The odyssey of black teachers

Freedom's first generation

Black teachers for black children

Missionaries to the dark South

White supremacy and black teachers

The founders

The faith of women

The city and the country

Teachers organize

Black teachers and the civil rights movement

Integration: loss and profit.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-499) and index.

ISBN:

9780674036666

0674036662

OCLC:

434595724