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A Will of Her Own: Sarah Towles Reed and the Pursuit of Democracy in Southern Public Education - Tapa blanda

Parr, Leslie Gale

 
9780820336312: A Will of Her Own: Sarah Towles Reed and the Pursuit of Democracy in Southern Public Education
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ISBN 10: 0820336319 ISBN 13: 9780820336312
Editorial: University of Georgia Press, 2010

Sinopsis

The decades between the Progressive Era of the 1920s and the civil rights struggles of the 1960s were a period of profound change in the lives of southern women. The life of Sarah Towles Reed (1882–1978) illuminates and parallels many of these transformations. Over the course of her long public life as a teacher, labor union lobbyist, and activist for the rights of public school teachers, Reed emerged as a groundbreaking leader, unafraid of taking on the educational and political hierarchies of the South. A Will of Her Own is the life story of a woman who had a lasting impact on her times as well as the story of the times themselves. Reed engaged the most significant concerns of the liberal reformers during the first half of the twentieth century―the struggle for economic independence for women and the fight for women’s rights, the effort to maintain intellectual freedom in the face of cold war paranoia, and the pursuit of racial justice. Her successes, as well as her failures, lend a personal perspective to these national trends. Her career also helps to clarify what it meant to be a southern liberal in the twentieth century and how the region’s peculiar circumstances shaped the politics and strategies of southern reformers.

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LESLIE GALE PARR is the Shawn M. Donnelley Professor of Nonprofit Communications at Loyola University New Orleans. She is also director of the Center for the Study of New Orleans that integrates social justice and analytical thinking to promote research into the city’s history, culture, and society.

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Editorial
University of Georgia Press
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0820336319
ISBN 13 
9780820336312
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Número de páginas
266
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