Search Results - "Whites"

Sitting in and speaking out student movements in the American South, 1960-1970 / by Turner, Jeffrey A.

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An epitaph for Little Rock a fiftieth anniversary retrospective on the Central High Crisis /

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More than one struggle the evolution of Black school reform in Milwaukee / by Dougherty, Jack

Table of Contents: “…Board -- Calming the "migrant crisis" through compensatory education -- Confronting established blacks and whites on segregation -- Uniting the movements for integration and Black power -- Negotiating the politics of stability and school desegregation -- Transforming strategies for Black school reform -- Conclusion : rethinking history and policy in the post-Brown era.…”
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A class of their own Black teachers in the segregated South / by Fairclough, Adam

Table of 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.…”
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Self-taught African American education in slavery and freedom / by Williams, Heather Andrea

Table of Contents: “…In secret places : acquiring literacy in slave communities -- A coveted possession : literacy in the first days of freedom -- The men are actually clamoring for books : African American soldiers and the educational mission -- We must get education for ourselves and our children : advocacy for education -- We are striving to do business on our own hook : organizing schools on the ground -- We are laboring under many difficulties : African American teachers in freedpeople's schools -- A long and tedious road to travel for knowledge : textbooks and freedpeople's schools -- If anybody wants an education, it is me : students in freedpeople's schools -- First movings of the waters : the creation of common school systems for Black and White students -- Epilogue -- Appendix : African Americans, literacy, and the law in the antebellum South.…”
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