African American Women Educators

A Critical Examination of Their Pedagogies, Educational Ideas, and Activism from the Nineteenth to the Mid-twentieth Century

Edited by Karen A. Johnson, Abul Pitre Fayetteville State University, North Carolina, Kenneth L. Johnson

Publication date:

18 March 2014

Length of book:

256 pages

Publisher

R&L Education

Dimensions:

236x162mm
6x9"

This book examines the lived experiences and work of African American women educators during the 1880s to the 1960s. Specifically, this text portrays an array of Black educators who used their social location as educators and activists to resist and fight the interlocking structures of power, oppression, and privilege that existed across the various educational institutions in the U.S. during this time. This book seeks to explore these educators' thoughts and teaching practices in an attempt to understand their unique vision of education for Black students and the implications of their work for current educational reform.

Series Preface by Dr. Abul Pitre
Foreword by Dr. Ceola Ross-Baber
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Dr. Abul Pitre

Chapter One: Invisible Woman by Adrienne Dixson
Chapter Two: Eminently Qualified by Carole Wylie Hancock
Chapter Three: Caring in the Classroom: Georgia’s Black Women Teachers Build Character on the Eve of Brown by Patrice Preston-Grimes
Chapter Four: “We were part of the plan”: Southern Black Women’s Experiences as Northern National Teacher Corps Inters, 1965-1971 by Jeannine Dingus-Eason, Ph.D.
Chapter Five: Why I Teach by Cleveland Hayes
Chapter Six: Septima Poinsette Clark’s Literacy Teaching approaches for Linguistic Acquisition and Literacy Development for Gullah-speaking Children, 1916-1919 by Karen A. Johnson
Chapter Seven: Fannie Richards and Gladys Roscoe: Repertoires of Practice of Two Early African-American Teachers in Detroit by Linda G. Williams, Ph.D.
Chapter Eight: Building Character and Culture: Lucy Craft Laney and the Haines School Community by Audrey McCluskey
Chapter Nine: “Uplift is Up to Us”: Mamie Garvin Fields and the School at Society Corner, 1926-1943 by Scott Baker