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June 2, 2008
Updated Dec 8, 2012
Issue VII
Raising Freedom's Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future After Slavery (American History and Culture Series) (Hardcover) by Mary Niall Mitchell (Author) Mary Niall Mitchell is Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Orleans.
An Introduction to Africana Philosophy (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy) (Hardcover) by Lewis R. Gordon (Author) Lewis R. Gordon is Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Judaic Studies at Temple University, Philadelphia.
Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas: Restoring the Links (Hardcover) by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (Author)Dr. Gwendolyn Midlo Hall is professor emerita of history at Rutgers University
Black Education: A Transformative Research and Action Agenda for the New Century (Hardcover) by Joyce E. King (Editor) Joyce E. King is the Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair of Urban Teaching, Learning and Leadership at Georgia State University and was chair of CORIBE.
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Piney Woods Country Life School
Laurence Clifton Jones (November 21, 1882 – 1975), was the founder and long-time president of Piney Woods Country Life School in the U.S. state of Mississippi.[1] A noted educational innovator, Jones spent his adult life supporting the educational advancement of rural African American students in the segregated South.
It was when he learned about rural Rankin County, Mississippi, which had an eighty percent illiteracy rate, that Jones identified his personal mission.[5] In 1909 Jones agreed to teach a poor youngster to read, and soon found himself teaching a small group of students. He started the Piney Woods School with just $2 and three students.[6] A local freed slave named Ed Taylor gave Jones 40 acres and an abandoned sheep shed to start his Piney Woods School... ....(Read More)
Publications of interest for your Consideration:
The Racial Middle: Latinos and Asian Americans Living Beyond theThe Racial Middle: Latinos and Asian Americans Living Beyond the Racial Divide (Hardcover) by Eileen OBrien (Author)
Diasporic Africa: A Reader (Hardcover) by Michael Gomez (Author)
(Hardcover) by Eileen OBrien (Author)
Diasporic Africa: A Reader (Hardcover) by Michael Gomez (Author)
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