African American Women Educators: A Critical Examination of Their Pedagogies, Educational Ideas, and Activism From the Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Century

Series Preface by Dr. Abul Pitre Foreword by Dr. Ceola Ross-Baber Acknowledgments Introduction by Dr. Abul Pitre Chapter One: Invisible Woman by Adrienne Dixson Chapter Two: Eminently Qualified by Carole Wylie Hancock Chapter Three: Caring in the Classroom: Georgia's Black Women Teachers Build Character on the Eve of Brown by Patrice Preston-Grimes Chapter Four: "We were part of the plan": Southern Black Women's Experiences as Northern National Teacher Corps Inters, 1965-1971 by Jeannine Dingus-Eason, Ph.D. Chapter Five: Why I Teach by Cleveland Hayes Chapter Six: Septima Poinsette Clark's Literacy Teaching approaches for Linguistic Acquisition and Literacy Development for Gullah-speaking Children, 1916-1919 by Karen A. Johnson Chapter Seven: Fannie Richards and Gladys Roscoe: Repertoires of Practice of Two Early African-American Teachers in Detroit by Linda G. Williams, Ph.D. Chapter Eight: Building Character and Culture: Lucy Craft Laney and the Haines School Community by Audrey McCluskey Chapter Nine: "Uplift is Up to Us": Mamie Garvin Fields and the School at Society Corner, 1926-1943 by Scott Baker