{"product_id":"a-forgotten-sisterhood-pioneering-black-women-educators-and-activists-in-the-jim-crow-south-9780810896062","title":"A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South","description":"In the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century a small group of women overcame personal and professional hardships to gain national prominence as educational reformers and social activists. This book takes a biographical look at Lucy Craft Laney, Mary McLeod Bethune, Nannie Helen Burroughs, and Charlotte Hawkins Brown. The four women founded schools for African-American children, as well as being activists, lecturers, and suffragists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAudrey Thomas McCluskey is professor emerita in the Department of African-American \u0026amp; African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University. She served alternately as director of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center and director of the Black Film Center\/ Archive. Her publications on black women educators include several journal articles, book chapters, and the coedited book, Mary McLeod Bethune: Building a Better World.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rlpg\/Galleys","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50503911670034,"sku":"9780810896062","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_52900633-b150-4d9a-9b12-0737a7220823.jpg?v=1730803998","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-forgotten-sisterhood-pioneering-black-women-educators-and-activists-in-the-jim-crow-south-9780810896062","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}