Remembering Lucile : A Virginia Family’s Rise from Slavery and a Legacy Forged a Mile High / Polly E. Bugros McLean.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McLean, Polly E. Bugros (Polly Elise Bugros), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jones, Lucile Berkeley Buchanan, 1884-1989--Biography.

University of Colorado Boulder--Students--Biography.

University of Colorado Boulder.

Children of freed persons--Biography.

Children of freed persons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 309 pages) : illustrations

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019

Place of Publication:

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2018]

Summary:

"The University of Colorado erroneously recognized Dr. Ruth Cave Flowers as its first Black graduate. In 1918--six years before Flowers's graduation--Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Jones received her bachelor's degree. McLean introduces this woman who lived through an extraordinary time and rectifies the omission from institutional history"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue : her voice can be heard

Inquiry and epiphany

Born in slavery : the master, the mistress, and their chattel

The Berkeleyes : a slave named Harriet Bishop, and her daughter, Sarah

Slavery's chain done broke at last

Colorado and the promise of freedom

From Denver's bottoms to P.T. Barnum's town

Education, politics and leisure

The frontier in our souls

School, community, and love lost

A fly in the buttermilk : Colorado and the world of higher education

"Goin' to Kansas City" : education and baseball

It's Mister Jones, if you please!

Chicago, take two

"Lincoln was a Republican, that's all I need to know!"

Coming home and going home

Epilogue: the end of the living line.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781607328254

1607328259

OCLC:

1080647269