Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt /
William J. Edwards, prominent educator, founded Snow Hill Institute in late 1893 and was its principal and guiding hand for 31 years. This book is a memoir written by Edwards in 1918, when the school was 25 years old. It not only provides a fascinating portrait of the conditions of Black people and...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
1993.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Introduction by Daniel T. Williams; Preface; 1. Childhood Days; 2. Shadows; 3. A Ray of Light; 4. Life at Tuskegee; 5. Reconnoitering; 6. Founding the Snow Hill School; 7. Small Beginnings; 8. Campaigning for Funds in the North; 9. Results; 10. Origin of the Jeanes Fund; 11. Appreciation; 12. Graduates and Ex-Students; 13. The Solution of the Negro Problem; 14. The Greatest Menace of the South; 15. The Negro Exodus; 16. The Negro and the Public Schools of the South; 17. Where Lies the Negro's Opportunity?; 18. School Problems of a Tuskegee Graduate.
- 19. Benefits Wrought by Hardships20. The Negro and the World War; Appendix; Epilogue by Consuela Lee.