Hello Professor

A Black Principal and Professional Leadership in the Segregated South

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19904697
AutoresVanessa Siddle Walker, Ulysses Byas
Ano2009
Páginas309
Data de publicação2009-08-16
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoHello Professor: A Black Principal and Professional Leadership in the Segregated South (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraUniversity of North Carolina Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5149/9780807888759_walker
OpenAlexW4253368745
Open LibraryOL23082561M
ISBN9780807888759
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas22

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. It explains that principals participated in local, regional, and national associations, comprising a black educational network through which power structures were formed and ideas were spread to schools across the South. The professor enabled local school empowerment and applied the collective wisdom of the network to pursue common school projects such as pressuring school superintendents for funding, structuring professional development for teachers, and generating local action that was informed by research in academic practice. The professor was uniquely positioned to learn about and deploy resources made available through these networks. The book's record of the transfer of ideology from black organizations into a local setting illuminates the remembered activities of black schools throughout the South and recalls for a new generation the role of the professor in uplifting black communities

American History and Culture · Critical Race Theory in Education · History · Race, History, and American Society · 20th century · African American school principals · African American students · biography · Byas, Ulysses · Discrimination in education · Education · Gainesville · Georgia · Public schools · race relations · Racism in education · School superintendents and principals · Segregation in education · Social conditions · Ulysses Byas · united states