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21. Caring Is Activism: Black Southern Womanist Teachers Theorizing and the Careers of Kathleen Crosby and Bertha Maxwell-Roddey, 1946-1986

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Ramsey, Sonya

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This article, based on archival research and oral interviews, examines the personal and professional impact of desegregation on African American teachers in an urban southern setting by focusing on the life stories of two public school teachers, Kathleen Crosby and Bertha Maxwell-Roddey. Both taught in segregated schools, helped to desegregate Charlotte's public schools, and later forged successful career paths as administrators from 1946 to 1986. Focusing on the motivating factors and educational theories of these exemplary womanist teachers offers a window into the lives of educators who forged new avenues for advancement in the urban South. This article also analyzes how the professional careers of Crosby and Maxwell-Roddey are emblematic of Tamera Beabuboeuf-Lafontant's theoretical concepts of womanist teaching. Patricia Hill Collins also argues that womanists strive to ensure group survival while pushing for institutional social change. Desegregation-era teachers such as Crosby and Maxwell-Roddey exemplify this dual purpose by expanding their mandate to serve to encompass political action as they challenged discriminatory school administrators and parents. These teachers practiced a form of caring activism that not only encouraged gender equality, but also adopted concepts of cultural nationalism to help Black children develop a positive self-identity (Beauboeuf-Lafonfant 2005, Collins 2000).

Published
2012

25. Recovering Five Generations Hence: The Life and Writing of Lillian Jones Horace

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Ramsey, Sonya

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Recovering Five Generations Hence: The Life and Writing of Lillian Jones Horace (Essay collection) -- Kossie-Chernyshev, Karen -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, History, Regional focus/area studies
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Recovering Five Generations Hence: The Life and Writing of Lillian Jones Horace. Edited by Karen Kossie-Chernyshev. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2013. Pp. x, 269. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-1 [...]

Published
2014

26. Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow's Teachers

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Ramsey, Sonya

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Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow's Teachers (Nonfiction work) -- Kelly, Hilton -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies, History
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Hilton Kelly, Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow's Teachers. New York: Routledge, 2010. Pp. 133. Cloth $95.00. In an innovative analysis of African American teachers in mral North Carolina, Hilton Kelly's [...]

Published
2011

27. Bridging Race Divides: Black Nationalism, Feminism, and Integration in the United States, 1896-1935

Author

Ramsey, Sonya

Subjects
Bridging Race Divides: Black Nationalism, Feminism, and Integration in the United States, 1896-1935 (Nonfiction work) -- Dossett, Kate, Books -- Book reviews, History, Regional focus/area studies
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Bridging Race Divides: Black Nationalism, Feminism, and Integration in the United States, 1896-1935. By Kate Dossett. (Gainesville and other cities: University Press of Florida, c. 2008. Pp. xvi, 268. $59.95, [...]

Published
2009

44. Black Women Teachers’ Reaction to Brown and the Civil Rights Movement in Nashville, 1954-1971.

Author

Ramsey, Sonya

Subjects
*AFRICAN American women teachers, *CIVIL rights movements, *AFRICAN American teachers
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INDIVIDUAL SUBMISSION ABSTRACT FOR 89TH ANNUAL ASALH CONFERENCE BLACK WOMEN TEACHERS’ REACTION TO BROWN AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN NASHVILLE, 1954-1971 In an effort to hinder integration after the Brown decision, Nashville, Tennessee’s school board allocated more funding for African American schools, which included new school construction, increased access to materials, and more teacher hires. Although gross funding inequities remained between the city’s black and white schools, African American teachers celebrated the positive changes by creating a rich culture for their students and the surrounding community while continuing to challenge the board to remedy existing problems. Consequently, the Brown decision, with its declaration that segregated schools were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional, did not have a major impact upon most of Nashville’s black children and African American educators until the early 1970s when the federal government forced the Nashville schools to implement a wide-scale desegregation plan. This presentation analyzes the powerful impact of African American female teachers on their students’ educational experiences, their fellow colleagues, and the black community in an effort to better understand why some black Nashvillians simultaneously worked to maintain equalized educational facilities, retain their black schools and teachers, in addition to fighting for school desegregation. This presentation will also discuss the experiences of African American female teachers during the civil rights movement in Nashville. These educators watched with an array of emotions from disdain to anxious pride as some of their students took to the streets to implement new strategies for freedom. Although teachers who were fearful of job repercussions and concerned about the safety of the activists simply watched from the sidelines, other teachers served pivotal roles as drivers, financial supporters, and meeting organizers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2004

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