Their Highest Potential : An African American School Community in the Segregated South /

African American schools in the segregated South faced enormous obstacles in educating their students. But some of these schools succeeded in providing nurturing educational environments in spite of the injustices of segregation. Vanessa Siddle Walker tells the story of one such school in rural Nort...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walker, Vanessa Siddle
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Caswell County Training School (Caswell County, N.C.)
Schule
Rassentrennung
Segregation in education.
Community and school.
African Americans > Education.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
EDUCATION > Bilingual Education.
Segregation in education > North Carolina > Caswell County > Case studies.
Community and school > North Carolina > Caswell County > Case studies.
African Americans > Education > North Carolina > Caswell County > Case studies.
Schwarze.
North Carolina
North Carolina > Caswell County.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Remembering the good
  • Couple of three years ago
  • Plot thickens
  • Working together
  • Meeting needs
  • We are family
  • Their highest potential
  • Standing on moving ground
  • No poverty of spirit.

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