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Torches of Light - Georgia Teachers and the Coming of the Modern South (Paperback, New)
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Torches of Light - Georgia Teachers and the Coming of the Modern South (Paperback, New)
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As turbulent social and economic changes swept the South in the
first half of the twentieth century, education became the
flashpoint. Ann Short Chirhart's study is the first to analyze such
modernizing events in Georgia. She shows how these changes affected
the creation of the state's public school system and cast its
teachers in a crucial role as mediators between transformation and
tradition. Depicting Georgia's steps toward modernity through
teachers' professional and cultural work and the educational
reforms they advocated, Chirhart presents a unique perspective on
the convergence of voices across the state calling for reform or
continuity, secularism or theology, equality or enforced norms,
consumption or self-reliance. Although most teachers, black and
white, shared backgrounds rooted in localism and evangelical
Protestantism, attitudes about race and gender kept them apart.
African American teachers, individually and collectively, redefined
traditional beliefs to buttress ideals of racial uplift and to
press for equal access to public services. White women adapted
similar beliefs in different ways to enhance their efforts to train
greater numbers of white students for professional and wage labor.
Torches of Light is based on such sources as government archives,
manuscript collections, and interviews with teachers. As Chirhart
examines the ideas over which Georgians clashed, she also shows how
those ideas were embodied in New Deal and U.S. Department of
Agriculture programs, the political activities of the black Georgia
Teachers and Educators Association, and the Georgia legislature's
1949 Minimum Foundation Act. Through two world wars and the Great
Depression, teachers sought to reconcile clashing beliefs not only
to renegotiate class, race, and gender roles but also to enhance
their own professionalism and authority.
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