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The Cul-lud Sch-oool Teach-ur Author:
Sandra E. Bowen
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 1592320082
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Description:
There was a time when colored school teachers were revered by practically
everybody in their communities, both white and colored. Being a colored
teacher in the South was a kind of a status. That day extended from its
post-slavery beginning to World War I, for a period afterwards, certainly to
World War II, and is said to exist in some remote places till today. These
respected mentors were predominantly female and taught in public elementary
schools where the bulk of southern colored school attendance was
concentrated. Traditionally these women were CCC— the “cream
of the colored community,” their character without public flaws;
dedication to the classroom their faith and religion. They were
choice ladies sought after and targeted maritally by a coterie of
colored men, many who had not completed the elementary grades, and
were low wage earners, whose “thang” was to marry one of these women
distinguished by their roll books and having principals as immediate
bosses. Most of these men were decent, and some loved the women who
would elevate them to statures they would never attain otherwise.
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