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American educator, activist, and advocate : Eleanor Rebecca Powell Archer / Kay Ann Taylor.
Van Pelt Library LA2317.A67 T38 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Kay Ann, author.
- Series:
- Critical Africana studies
- Critical Africana studies: African, African American, and Caribbean interdisciplinary and intersectional studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archer, Eleanor Rebecca Powell, 1918-2013.
- Archer, Eleanor Rebecca Powell.
- African American women teachers--Iowa--Des Moines--Biography.
- African American women teachers.
- Women teachers--Iowa--Des Moines--Biography.
- Women teachers.
- African American women teachers--Iowa--Des Moines--Social conditions.
- Segregation in education--Iowa--Des Moines--History--20th century.
- Segregation in education.
- African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.
- African Americans.
- Racism in education--Iowa--Des Moines--History--20th century.
- Racism in education.
- Des Moines (Iowa)--History--20th century.
- Des Moines (Iowa).
- Physical Description:
- xi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2024]
- Summary:
- "American Educator, Activist, and Advocate provides in-depth research into Eleanor Archer's life as one of the first Black public school teachers in Des Moines and presents a gateway for academics to acknowledge the lives and ideas of women during the Jim Crow era, clarifying Black women's standpoint on the segregated South"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The embeddedness of racism: maintaining the status quo
- The foundation for developing Black woman's standpoint
- Transforming an institution: confronting barriers of race and gender
- Sumner high school: A culture of community and potential
- Reclaiming self-reliance and Black woman's standpoint
- Multicultural and STEM activist and advocate educator
- Community service and development, family, and learning through travel
- Challenges remain in the ongoing quest to disrupt the status quo.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Taylor, Kay Ann. American educator, activist, and advocate
- ISBN:
- 9781666920574
- 1666920576
- OCLC:
- 1417081056
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