| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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Reading, Writing, and Segregation: A Century of Black Women Teachers in Nashville. By Sonya Ramsey. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. xvi, 182 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03229-5.)

Sonya Ramsey has undertaken the ambitious task of examining the impact of black women teachers on African American progress in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1867 to 1983. From the outset, Ramsey argues convincingly that these teachers eagerly embraced a role that was much larger than simply providing education to black pupils: they were committed to doing their part to assist in racial uplift. Ramsey's analysis includes an effective discussion of the industrial education versus classical education debate that always seems to be part of any examination of black education in the early twentieth century. The author also addresses the themes of overcrowding, inequitable distribution of resources, and gender and class bias as she looks at the dimensions of the struggle facing these black female teachers in the years leading up to the civil rights movement.

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