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Remembering Lucile : A Virginia Family's Rise from Slavery and a Legacy Forged a Mile High /
"The University of Colorado erroneously recognized Dr. Ruth Cave Flowers as its first Black graduate. In 1918--six years before Flowers's graduation--Lucile Berkeley Buchanan Jones received her bachelor's degree. McLean introduces this woman who lived through an extraordinary time and...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boulder, Colorado :
University Press of Colorado,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue : her voice can be heard
- Inquiry and epiphany
- Born in slavery : the master, the mistress, and their chattel
- The Berkeleys : a slave named Harriet Bishop, and her daughter, Sarah
- Slavery's chain done broke at last
- Colorado and the promise of freedom
- From Denver's bottoms to P.T. Barnum's town
- Education, politics and leisure
- The frontier in our souls
- School, community, and love lost
- A fly in the buttermilk : Colorado and the world of higher education
- "Goin' to Kansas City" : education and baseball
- It's Mister Jones, if you please
- Chicago, take two
- "Lincoln was a Republican, that's all I need to know!"
- Coming home and going home
- Epilogue : the end of the living line.