A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South

by Audrey Thomas McCluskey

Book Overview

Emerging from the darkness of the slave era and Reconstruction, black activist women Lucy Craft Laney, Mary McLeod Bethune, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, and Nannie Helen Burroughs founded schools aimed at liberating African-American youth from disadvantaged futures in the segregated and decidedly unequal South. From the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, these individuals fought discrimination as members of a larger movement of black women...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442211385
• ISBN13: 9781442211384
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 10.3"