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1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages) |
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Sightline books. The Iowa series in literary nonfiction |
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Sightline books.
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| Contents |
Foreword; A Part of Me; Concerning This Little Frightened Child; Reach Up Your Hand, Dark Boy, and Take a Star; Larger Than Truth Can Be; Where Is the Jim Crow Section on This Merry-Go-Round?; The Too-Rough Fingers of the World; It Was a Long Time Ago; Afterword; Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
When Huston Diehl began teaching a fourth-grade class in a "Negro" elementary school in rural Louisa County, Virginia, the school's white superintendent assured her that he didn't expect her to teach "those children" anything. She soon discovered how these low expectations, widely shared by the white community, impeded her students' ability to learn. With its overcrowded classrooms, poorly trained teachers, empty bookshelves, and meager supplies, her segregated school was vastly inferior to the county's white elementary schools, and the message it sent her students was clear: "dream not of ot |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Education -- Virginia -- Louisa County -- Case studies
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Segregation in education -- Virginia -- Louisa County -- Case studies
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First year teachers -- Case studies
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EDUCATION -- Students & Student Life.
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HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
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African Americans -- Education
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First year teachers
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Segregation in education
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Virginia -- Louisa County
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781587297168 |
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1587297167 |
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