Stevens Memorial Library (North Andover)

A forgotten sisterhood, pioneering black women educators and activists in the Jim Crow South, Audrey Thomas McCluskey

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

collective biography

index present

non fiction

A forgotten sisterhood

bibliography

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Audrey Thomas McCluskey

pioneering black women educators and activists in the Jim Crow South

In the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century a small group of women overcame personal and professional hardships to gain national prominence as educational reformers and social activists. This book takes a biographical look at Lucy Craft Laney, Mary McLeod Bethune, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Charlotte Hawkins Brown. The four women knew each other through the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. The other four women founded schools for African-American children, as well as being activists, lecturers, and suffragists, and the book includes interviews with students who came fro

The world they inherited -- "Moving like a whirlwind" : Lucy Craft Laney, activist educator -- "The best secondary school in Georgia" : building the Haines Institute culture -- "Ringing up a school" : Mary McLeod Bethune's impact on Daytona Beach -- "Show some daylight between you" : Charlotte Hawkins Brown and the schooling experience of Memorial Palmer Institute graduates, 1948-1958 -- "Telling some mighty truths" : Nannie Helen Burroughs, activist educator and social critic -- "The masses and the classes" : women's friendships and support networks among school founders -- Passing into history : commemorations, memorials, and the legacies of Black women school founders -- Milestones and legacies