'Better for Us than it was For Her': African American Families, Communities, and Reform in Modern Georgia

Autor: Ann Short Chirhart
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: Journal of Family History. 28:578-602
ISSN: 1552-5473
0363-1990
DOI: 10.1177/0363199003256925
Popis: This article argues that African American families devised a unique method to educate their daughters so that they could stay in school and eventually work as teachers in black communities. Black women's accomplishments were honored as an adaptation to economic and social oppression and a definitive cultural value in the twentieth century.
Databáze: OpenAIRE