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I Am Only One, But I Am One

I Am Only One, But I Am One

Auteur: Valinda W. Littlefield

Nombre de pages: 438 pages

ISBN: ISBN non disponible

Edition: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Date de publication: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Description: Profiles African-American women schoolteachers Annie Holland, Justine Wilkinson Washington, Mary Pauline Fitzgerald Dame, and Charlotte Hawkins Brown and examines their impact in their respective communities during the Jim Crow period in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. Holland and Washington were hired through the Jeanes Fund, which provided money to southern states to hire black female teachers.