A Community of Voices on Education and the African American Experience : A Record of Struggles and Triumphs /: A Record of Struggles and Triumphs. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Hazel Arnett Ervin, Lois Jamison Sheer.
• Other Names: Ervin, Hazel Arnett; Sheer, Lois Jamison
• Contents: Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Landmarks and Milestones; Personal Testimonies; Tracts and Dialogues from Thomas Bacon's Sermons Addressedto Masters and Servants; In Secret Places, Acquiring Literacy in Slave Communities; Chapter VII from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave; Slave Testimony; Letter from a Female Reader to the Editor of Freedom's Journal 1827; Letter to Samuel May, Jr., General Agent of the American Anti-SlaverySociety, 1854; "The Schoolmarms" Excerpted from We Are Your Sisters; Boyhood Days from Up from Slavery. Black Colleges from American Higher Education, A HistoryChapter VIII; Harvard in the Last Decade of the 19th Century from The Autobiographyof W.E.B. Du Bois; "Schaal" ; "Let Down Your Bucket"; A Life of Learning; A Family Legacy from The Measure of Our Success, A Letter to My Children and Yours; Alma Mater from The Autobiography of Malcolm X; The Introduction from Vernon Can Read! A Memoir; Interview with Melba Patillo Beals (A Member of the Little Rock Nine)Scholastic, Inc; The Trial from In My Place; UGA; Reflections of Family and Education from Brother West; School Days. Two Positives from Gifted HandsLitigations; Federal Court Decisions, School Reform, and African AmericanEducation; Intellectual Perspectives; The Quest for 'Book Learning'; Epilogue; The Practical Value of Higher Education; The Talented Tenth; Book Reviews; A Book Review; American Values, Social Goals, and the Desegregated School; The African American High School Experience in Perspective; Marva Collins, Her Way; Twenty-Five Lessons for Life from The Measure of Our Success; The Religious Needs of Negro Students; Independent Neighborhood Schools; Relevance Remains; Fighting for Our Lives. Maintaining Social Justice through Culturally Responsive ClassroomManagemenReflections on America's Academic Achievement Gaps; From DuBois to Obama; Bibliography; Index.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (455 pages)
• Subjects: 371.8; Moral & social purpose of education; School/community relations & school/home relations; Social & cultural history; African Americans -- Education -- History; African Americans -- Social conditions -- History; EDUCATION -- Administration -- General; EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions; African Americans -- Education; African Americans -- Social conditions; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443889551; 1443889555
• Related ISBNs: 1443881163; 9781443881166
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.