Research Catalog

Title

Teaching equality : Black schools in the age of Jim Crow / Adam Fairclough.

Author

Fairclough, Adam.

Publication

Athens, Ga. : University of Georgia Press, ©2001.

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Details

Description

x, 110 pages; 22 cm

Summary

• "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 the civil rights movement. He traces black educator's connection to the white community and examines the difficult compromises they had to make in order to secure schools and funding. Teachers did not, he argues, sell out the black community but instead instilled hope and commitment to equality in the minds of their pupils.
• Defining the term teacher broadly to include any person who taught students, whether in a backwoods cabin or the brick halls of a university, Fairclough illustrates the multifaceted responsibilities of individuals who were community leaders and frontline activists as well as conveyors of knowledge. He reveals the complicated lives of these educators who, in the face of a prejudice-based social order and a history of oppression, sustained and inspired the minds and hearts of generations of black Americans"--Jacket.

Series Statement

Mercer University Lamar memorial lectures ; no. 43

Uniform Title

Mercer University Lamar memorial lectures ; no. 43.

Subject

• African Americans > Education
• Segregation in education > United States
• African American educators > Biography
• African American educators
• African Americans > Education
• Segregation in education
• Rassentrennung
• Bildungswesen
• Noirs américains > Éducation
• Ségrégation en éducation > États-Unis
• United States
• Schwärze
• USA

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-101) and index.

Contents

Liberation or collaboration? Black teachers in the era of white supremacy -- Robert R. Moton and the travail of the black college president -- Black teachers and the civil rights movement.

ISBN

• 0820322725
• 9780820322728
• 0820350397
• 9780820350394

LCCN

00045131

OCLC

• ocm44905041
• 44905041
• SCSB-8920949

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library