Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South

by Vanessa Walker and Vanessa Siddle Walker

African American schools in the segregated South faced enormous obstacles in educating their students. But some of these schools succeeded in providing nurturing educational environments in spite of the injustices of segregation. Vanessa Siddle Walker tells the story of one such school in rural North Carolina, the Caswell County Training School, which operated from 1934 to 1969. She focuses especially on the importance of dedicated teachers and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807822760
• ISBN13: 9780807822760
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"