A Class of Their Own

Black Teachers in the Segregated South

Adam Fairclough

  • 2008 History of Education Society's Outstanding Book Award

Abbreviations

Prologue: The Odyssey of Black Teachers

1. Freedom's First Generation

2. Black Teachers for Black Children

3. Missionaries to the Dark South

4. White Supremacy and Black Teachers

5. The Founders

6. The Faith of Women

7. The City and the Country

8. Teachers Organize

9. Black Teachers and the Civil Rights Movement

10. Integration: Loss and Profit

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: A Class of Their Own

Adam Fairclough is the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Professor of American History and Culture at Leiden University.