Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South
by
Audrey Thomas McCluskey
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
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...