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First Class
Alison Stewart
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Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBFC; JNB; JNLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 222 x 24. Weight in Grams: 446.
In the first half of the twentieth century, Dunbar was an academically elite public school, despite being racially segregated by law and existing at the mercy of racist congressmen who held the school’s purse strings. These enormous challenges did not stop the local community from rallying for the cause of educating its children.
Dunbar attracted an amazing faculty: one early principal was the first black graduate of Harvard, almost all the teachers had graduate degrees, and several earned PhDs—all extraordinary achievements given the Jim Crow laws of the times. Over the school’s first eighty years, these teachers developed generations ... Read more
In the first half of the twentieth century, Dunbar was an academically elite public school, despite being racially segregated by law and existing at the mercy of racist congressmen who held the school’s purse strings. These enormous challenges did not stop the local community from rallying for the cause of educating its children.
Dunbar attracted an amazing faculty: one early principal was the first black graduate of Harvard, almost all the teachers had graduate degrees, and several earned PhDs—all extraordinary achievements given the Jim Crow laws of the times. Over the school’s first eighty years, these teachers developed generations ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Chicago Review Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781613731765
SKU
V9781613731765
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About Alison Stewart
Alison Stewart is an award-winning journalist whose twenty-year career includes anchoring and reporting for NPR, NBC News, ABC News, and CBS News. She got her start covering politics for MTV News. Stewart is a graduate of Brown University. Melissa Harris-Perry is a professor of political science at Tulane University and host of The Melissa Harris-Perry Show.
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