A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South
A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South By Audrey Thomas McCluskey
2014 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1442211385 | PDF | 2 MB
2014 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1442211385 | PDF | 2 MB
In the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century a small group of women overcame personal and professional hardships to gain national prominence as educational reformers and social activists. This book takes a biographical look at Lucy Craft Laney, Mary McLeod Bethune, Nannie Helen Burroughs, and Charlotte Hawkins Brown. The four women founded schools for African-American children, as well as being activists, lecturers, and suffragists.