17 Years in the Black Room

Bys: Powell, Tamara S. and Sansom-Piper, Susie

Seventeen Years in the Black Room is about the transition from segregation to integration for a small-town Texas Black school teacher, Susie Sansom-Piper, in the late 1960's. As the last Principal to close the segregated school, this memoir begins with a look at the segregated black community during her childhood (after 1921), and outlines the challenges she faced both in the integrated school and within the black community. This is a story of resilience,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN13: 9798823026529
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"