A Class of Their Own: Black Teachers in the Segregated South

by Adam Fairclough

Book Overview

In this major undertaking, civil rights historian Adam Fairclough chronicles the odyssey of black teachers in the South from emancipation in 1865 to integration one hundred years later. No book until now has provided us with the full story of what African American teachers tried, achieved, and failed to do in educating the Southern black population over this critical century.

This magisterial narrative offers a bold new vision of black teachers,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674023072
• ISBN13: 9780674023079
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 10.1" x 6.5"