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Author Williams, Gertrude S., 1927-

Title Education as my agenda : Gertrude Williams, race, and the Baltimore Public Schools / Gertrude S. Williams with Jo Ann Ooiman Robinson
Published New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 311 pages) : illustrations
Series Palgrave studies in oral history
Palgrave studies in oral history.
Contents Beginnings -- Teacher Training at Cheyney State -- Teacher at Charles Carroll of Carrollton -- Counselor at Mordecai Gist -- Vice Principal at Barclay School -- Principal at Barclay, Part One: "Barclay is Everybody's Business" -- Principal at Barclay, Part Two: "Gertie is So Goddamned Stubborn" -- Principal at Barclay, Part Three: "We Decided to Create a Middle School -- Principal at Barclay, Part Four: "We did not Want a Poor Man's Curriculum" -- Principal at Barclay, Part Five: "The Program Was Not a Panacea" -- Retirement
Summary When Gertrude Williams retired in 1998, after forty-nine years in the Baltimore public schools, The Baltimore Sun called her "the most powerful of principals" who "tangled with two superintendents and beat them both." In this oral memoir, Williams identifies the essential elements of sound education and describes the battles she waged to secure those elements, first as teacher, then a counselor, and, for twenty-five years, as principal. She also described her own education - growing up black in largely white Germantown, Pennsylvania; studying black history and culture for the first time at Cheyney State Teachers College; and meeting the rigorous demands of the program which she graduated from in 1949. In retracing her career, Williams examines the highs and lows of urban public education since World War II. She is at once an outspoken critic and spirited advocate of the system to which she devoted her life
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-290) and index
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Subject Williams, Gertrude S., 1927-
SUBJECT Williams, Gertrude S., 1927- fast
Subject African American school principals -- Biography
Public schools -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- History -- 20th century
School principals -- United States -- Biography
History of the Americas.
Ethnic studies.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
History.
African American school principals
Public schools
Race relations
School principals
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
Subject Maryland -- Baltimore
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Robinson, Jo Ann, 1942-
ISBN 9781403981400
140398140X