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In pursuit of knowledge : black women and educational activism in antebellum America /

Uncovers the hidden role of girls and women in the desegregation of American education The story of school desegregation in the United States often begins in the mid-twentieth-century South. Drawing on archival sources and genealogical records, Kabria Baumgartner uncovers the story's origins in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baumgartner, Kabria, 1982- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Colección:Early American places.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prayer and protest at the Canterbury Female Seminary
  • Race and reform at the Young Ladies' Domestic Seminary
  • Women teachers in New York City
  • Race, gender, and the American high school in Massachusetts
  • Black girlhood and equal rights in Boston
  • Character education and the antebellum classroom
  • Conclusion. Going forward