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A Class of Their Own

Black Teachers in the Segregated South

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HARDCOVER

$40.00 • £32.95 • €36.00

ISBN 9780674023079

Publication Date: 02/16/2007

Short

552 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

11 halftones

Belknap Press

World

Related Subjects

  • 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

Awards & Accolades

  • 2008 Outstanding Book Award, History of Education Society
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