Teaching Equality - Black Schools in the Age of Jim Crow (Hardcover)

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 educators' 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.

General

Imprint:	University of Georgia Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures, v. 43
Release date:	February 2001
First published:	February 2001
Authors:	Adam Fairclough
Dimensions:	230 x 147 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	144
ISBN-13:	978-0-8203-2272-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > American history > 1800 to 1900 Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies Books > Social sciences > Education > Teaching of specific groups > Teaching of ethnic minorities Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > Civil rights & citizenship Books > History > American history > 1800 to 1900
LSN:	0-8203-2272-5
Barcode:	9780820322728

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