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A White liberal college president in the Jim Crow South : Guy Herbert Wells and the YWCA at Georgia State College for Women, 1934-1953

Title
A White liberal college president in the Jim Crow South : Guy Herbert Wells and the YWCA at Georgia State College for Women, 1934-1953 / Sandra E. Godwin ; with Helen Matthews Lewis.
Author
Godwin, Sandra E.
Publication
  • Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, 2021.
  • ©2021

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Additional Authors
  • Lewis, Helen Matthews
  • Mercer University Press.
Description
xvi, 238 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Wells, Guy Herbert
  • Georgia College > History
  • Georgia College > Presidents > Biography
  • Georgia College & State University > History
  • Georgia College (Corporate Name)
  • 1900-1999
  • College presidents > Georgia > Biography
  • Segregation in education > Georgia > History > 20th century
  • African Americans > Education (Higher) > History > Georgia > 20th century
  • Young Women's Christian associations > Georgia > History > 20th century
  • Segregation in education
  • Young Women's Christian associations
  • Georgia
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-219) and index.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Higher Education in Georgia: A Site of Early Civil Rights Struggle and Learning to Play the Middle -- 2. Setting the Stage: President Wells's Transfer to GSCW and the YWCA -- 3. Lesson One: Keep a Close Watch on the YWCA -- 4. Lesson Two: Provide Uneven Support of the YWCA -- 5. Lesson Three: Move Left Under Liberal Governors -- 6. Lesson Four: Stay Left When It's Safe -- 7. Conclusion: Maintaining "Integrity" Amidst "Forces of Reaction": President Guy Herbert Wells (1934 -- 1953) and President Dorothy Leland (2004 -- 2011).
Call Number
Sc E 22-622
ISBN
  • 0881467901
  • 9780881467901
OCLC
1231956698
Author
Godwin, Sandra E., author.
Title
A White liberal college president in the Jim Crow South : Guy Herbert Wells and the YWCA at Georgia State College for Women, 1934-1953 / Sandra E. Godwin ; with Helen Matthews Lewis.
Publisher
Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, 2021.
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-219) and index.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Added Author
Lewis, Helen Matthews, contributor.
Mercer University Press.
Research Call Number
Sc E 22-622
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