Schools in the Landscape
Schools in the Landscape

Author: Edith Ziegler

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2010-10-06

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0817317090

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This richly researched and impressively argued work is a history of public schooling in Alabama in the half century following the Civil War. It engages with depth and sophistication Alabama’s social and cultural life in the period that can be characterized by the three “R”s: Reconstruction, redemption, and racism. Alabama was a mostly rural, relatively poor, and culturally conservative state, and its schools reflected the assumptions of that society.

Bulletin
Bulletin

Author: United States. Office of Education

Publisher:

Published: 1932

Total Pages: 1058

ISBN-13:

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School Segregation in Western North Carolina
School Segregation in Western North Carolina

Author: Betty Jamerson Reed

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2011-10-14

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0786487089

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Although African Americans make up a small portion of the population of western North Carolina, they have contributed much to the area's physical and cultural landscape. This enlightening study surveys the region's segregated black schools from Reconstruction through integration and reveals the struggles, achievements, and ultimate victory of a unified community intent on achieving an adequate education for its children. The book documents the events that initially brought blacks into Appalachia, early efforts to educate black children, the movement to acquire and improve schools, and the long process of desegregation. Personnel issues, curriculum, extracurricular activities, sports, consolidation, and construction also receive attention. Featuring commentary from former students, teachers and parents, this work weighs the value and achievement of rural segregated black schools as well as their significance for educators today.