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hello professor a black principal and professional leadership in the segregated south
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 vanessa siddle walker 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 . p walker 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 . walkers 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 .
hardcover university of north carolina press 2009 isbn13 9780807832899 isbn10 0807832898
abridged n isbn 13 9780807832899 number in series 1 number of pages 293 publisher university of north carolina press release date 62135769600000