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Discusses the work of the Fund for Rudimentary Schools for Southern Negroes created by Anna T. Jeanes in 1907. A group of African-American master teachers, the Jeanes Supervisors, visited one-room schools in rural areas, working to improve the schools as well as to affect health, political, and social issues that impacted them.
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Discusses the friendship between Booker T. Washington, founder of the Tuskegee Institute, and Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company and how, through their friendship, they were able to build five thousand schools for African Americans in the Southern states.
4) The lost education of Horace Tate: uncovering the hidden heroes who fought for justice in schools
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"In the epic tradition of Eyes on the Prize and with the cultural significance of John Lewis's March trilogy, an ambitious and harrowing account of the devoted black educators who battled Southern school segregation and inequality"--
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Using the Atlanta, Birmingham, and Nashville Public Libraries as case studies, The Development of Southern Public Libraries and the African American Quest for Library Access, 1898-1963 argues that public libraries played an integral role in Southern cities' economic and cultural boosterism efforts during the New South and Progressive Eras. First, Southern public libraries helped institutionalize segregation during the early twentieth century by refusing...