Teaching Equality: Black Schools in the Age of Jim Crow

by Adam Fairclough

Book Overview

In Teaching Equality, Adam Fairclough provides an overview of the enormous contributions made by African American teachers to the black freedom movement in the United States. Beginning with the close of the Civil War, when "the efforts of the slave regime to prevent black literacy meant that blacks . . . associated education with liberation," Fairclough explores the development of educational ideals in the black community up through the years of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820322725
• ISBN13: 9780820322728
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.5"