Bertha Maxwell-Roddey : a modern-day race woman and the power of black leadership /

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"This biography of educational activist and Black studies pioneer Bertha Maxwell-Roddey examines a life of remarkable achievements and leadership in the early years of the desegregated South. Sonya Ramsey describes how Maxwell-Roddey and her peers turned hard-won civil rights and feminist miles...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ramsey, Sonya Yvette (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2022]
Subjects:
Maxwell-Roddey, Bertha, > 1930-
University of North Carolina at Charlotte > Faculty > Biography.
University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
African American women college teachers > North Carolina > Charlotte > Biography.
African American college teachers > North Carolina > Charlotte > Biography.
African American women teachers > North Carolina > Charlotte > Biography.
Discrimination in higher education > North Carolina > Charlotte > History.
African American women > Education (Higher) > Biography.
Discrimination dans l'enseignement supérieur > Caroline du Nord > Charlotte > Histoire.
Professeures noires américaines (Enseignement supérieur) > Caroline du Nord > Charlotte > Biographies.
Professeurs noirs américains (Enseignement supérieur) > Caroline du Nord > Charlotte > Biographies.
Enseignantes noires américaines > Caroline du Nord > Charlotte > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators.
African American college teachers.
African American women college teachers.
African American women > Education (Higher)
African American women teachers.
Discrimination in higher education.
Universities and colleges > Faculty.
Biography & non-fiction prose.
Biography.
North Carolina > Charlotte.
Biographies.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A "Big Mind," Childhood, and Early Beginnings
  • "It Was Like Putting Diapers on Gnats"
  • Planting the Seed
  • Aluta Continua! The Struggle Continues!: Looking Outward to Strengthen Within
  • Retrieving What Was Lost, Building New Beginnings
  • Charlotte's Afro-American Cultural Center: And the Rise Of The New South, Post-Soul City
  • What does it mean to be a Delta?
  • Bertha's Girls and the Dimensions of a Political Sisterhood
  • Conclusion: I Am Because We Are.

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