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Author Walker, Vanessa Siddle

Title Hello professor : a black principal and professional leadership in the segregated south / Vanessa Siddle Walker with Ulysses Byas
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 293 pages) : illustrations, maps, photographs
Contents Playing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -- From high school dropout to classroom teacher -- In spite of this old devil segregation -- In Georgia, where I am free to express myself -- Whatever is in the best interests of kids -- Not without partnering with the community
Summary Like many black school principals, Ulysses Byas, who served the Gainesville, Georgia, school system in the 1950s and 1960s, was reverently addressed by community members as 'Professor'. He kept copious notes and records throughout his career, documenting efforts to improve the education of blacks. Through conversations with Byas and access to his extensive archives on his principalship, this book finds that black principals were well positioned in the community to serve as conduits of ideas, knowledge, and tools to support black resistance to officially sanctioned regressive educational systems in the Jim Crow South
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-279) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Byas, Ulysses.
SUBJECT Byas, Ulysses
Byas, Ulysses fast
Subject African American school principals -- Georgia -- Gainesville -- Biography
Public schools -- Georgia -- Gainesville
African American students -- Georgia -- Gainesville -- Social conditions
Segregation in education -- Georgia -- Gainesville
Racism in education -- Georgia -- Gainesville
Discrimination in education -- Georgia -- Gainesville
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
African American school principals
African American students -- Social conditions
Discrimination in education
Public schools
Race relations
Racism in education
Segregation in education
Social conditions
SUBJECT Gainesville (Ga.) -- Race relations
Gainesville (Ga.) -- Social conditions
Gainesville (Ga.) -- History -- 20th century
Subject Georgia -- Gainesville
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Byas, Ulysses.
ISBN 9780807888766
0807888761
9781469605562
1469605562
9780807888759
0807888753