ePub Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion As: Illustrated By the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru (Classic Reprint) by Albert Reville in History

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Emerging from the darkness of the slave era and Reconstruction; black activist women Lucy Craft Laney; Mary McLeod Bethune; Charlotte Hawkins Brown; and Nannie Helen Burroughs founded schools aimed at liberating African-American youth from disadvantaged futures in the segregated and decidedly unequal South. From the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries; these individuals fought discrimination as members of a larger movement of black women who uplifted future generations through a focus on education; social service; and cultural transformation. Born free; but with the shadow of the slave past still implanted in their consciousness; Laney; Bethune; Brown; and Burroughs built off each other’s successes and learned from each other’s struggles as administrators; lecturers; and suffragists. Drawing from the women’s own letters and writings about educational methods and from remembrances of surviving students; Audrey Thomas McCluskey reveals the pivotal significance of this sisterhood’s legacy for later generations and for the institution of education itself.